Intellectual Property Concentration Track

Faculty Advisors

• Robert Gomulkiewicz
• Toshiko Takenaka

IP Concentration Track: Program Requirements

Students must take at least 20 total credits of courses from the IP-related courses listed below. In the process of earning those 20 credits, students must fulfill the following requirements:

1. All students must take either E567 IP Survey or P510 IP Core.
2. All students must take at least one course from each of the following categories:
   1. Advanced IP Law
      • P545 Advanced Patent Law
      • P522 Advanced Copyright Law
      • P<TDB>> Advanced Trademark Law
      • P505 International Trademark and Copyright
      • E589 Intellectual Property Innovations in Science and Technology
   2. IP Law in Context
      • E547 Legal Protection for Computer Software
      • H570 Biotechnology and the Law
      • P535 Entertainment Law
      • E552 Strategic Technology Licensing
      • P539 Law, Technology, and Economic Development
      • E541 E-Commerce and Information Technology
      • E539 US and EU E-Commerce Law
      • P509 IP and Antitrust Law
      • P504 Economic Analysis of IP
      • T545 Int'l Taxation of IP
   3. IP Law in Practice
      • E523 Entrepreneurial Law Clinic
      • E548 Litigation Strategies for the Protection of IP
      • E550 Patent Prosecution
      • E577 Drafting Technology Contracts
      • E554 Technology Law and Public Policy Clinic
      • P506 Transnational Intellectual Property Law: Theory and Practice
      • Externship with an organization dealing with intellectual property rights (externship must be approved by the Law School’s public service program and a Concentration Track faculty advisor)
3. All students must complete an advanced writing project on an intellectual property law subject. This requirement may be satisfied by writing a major research paper in conjunction with an intellectual property course, as part of an independent study, or by publishing a law journal article.