Certificate Requirements
IP: General
To earn a Certificate in General Intellectual Property, a student must complete the eighty-six (86) semester hours required for the Juris Doctor degree and satisfy all JD requirements. Within the elective course work required for the JD degree, a student must fulfill the following requirements:
- Complete at least fifteen (15) credit hours from the listed Intellectual Property courses
- Complete the courses listed under one of the following two options:
- Students must take the Intellectual Property Law Survey and two of the following courses:
- Patent Law
- Copyright Law *
- Trademark and Unfair Competition Law
- Students must take all of the following courses:
- Patent Law
- Copyright Law
- Trademark and Unfair Competition Law
- Choose two electives, one of which must be a seminar or practicum
- Earn a minimum GPA of 3.2 in all IP courses
- All courses are three (3) credits unless otherwise indicated. Certificate courses may not be audited.
- Please note that if a student takes more than 15 hours of IP/IT courses or practicums, all grades earned in those courses will be factored into the minimum 3.2 GPA requirement.
- Occasionally new seminars or courses may be added or available on a one-time basis which would be appropriate electives for this certificate. Students may contact Professor Barbara Bressler to seek approval for elective credit for such courses
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OPTION 1
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OPTION 2
Contact
Joshua D. Sarnoff
Professor of Law
Director, Center for Intellectual Property Law & Information Technology (CIPLITŪ)
Barbara B. Bressler
Clinical Associate Professor of Law
Supervisor, Technology/Intellectual Property Legal Clinic (TIP Clinic®)
Deputy Director, Field Placement Program
Joshua D. Sarnoff
Professor of Law
Director, Center for Intellectual Property Law & Information Technology (CIPLITŪ)
Barbara B. Bressler
Clinical Associate Professor of Law
Supervisor, Technology/Intellectual Property Legal Clinic (TIP Clinic®)
Deputy Director, Field Placement Program
Elective Courses, Seminars and Practicum
- Law 250: Seminar: Advanced Concepts in Patent Law
- Law 250: Seminar: Advanced Concepts in Copyright Law
- Law 250: Seminar: Cultural Property
- Law 250: Seminar: Intellectual Property & Antitrust
- Law 250: Seminar: Telecommunications Law
- Law 250: Seminar: Advanced Concepts in Intellectual Property
- Law 333: Music Law
- Law 455: Legal Drafting: Trademark & Copyright
- Law 455: Legal Drafting: Patents
- Law 470: Advanced Patent Law
- Law 469: Litigation Strategy: Intellectual Property+
- Law 514: Legal Clinic: Technology & Intellectual Property (TIP ClinicŪ)+
- Law 250: Publicity and Moral Rights Seminar
- Law 250: Comparative Approach to Software, Business Methods & Database Protection
- Law 250: Seminar: Intellectual Property & Climate Change (must have approval from Professor Sarnoff to satisfy the seminar, requirement of the certificate)
- Law 337: Biotechnology Patent Strategies for the New Millennium
- Law 338: Intellectual Property for Corporate Transactional Lawyers
- Law 250: Data Privacy Seminar
- Law 999: Electronic Commerce Law
- Law 341: Cyberlaw
- Law 495: Law & the Mass Media
- Law 355: Theater Law
- Law 357: Entertainment Law
- Law 454: International Intellectual Property
- Law 535: Art & the Law
- Law 543: Telecommunications Law & Policy
- Law 271: Trademark and Unfair Competition Law
- Law 200: Non-Profit Organizations
- Law 401: Advanced Antitrust: IP Issues and Competition
- Law 352: The Law of Film and TV Production and Distribution
- Law 524: Field Placement in IP Law (must be approved by Professor Bressler)+
- Law 533: Patent Law Moot Court+
- Law 508: Administrative Process
+Practicum Courses
Note:
Students may only apply for one certificate.
Students may only apply for one certificate.
*Students planning to apply for the General IP Certificate this year will NOT be able to count both Professor Kwall's IP Survey Course and her Copyright course toward the IP General Certificate Students may take Professor Livingston's Copyright Class for IP Certificate Credit if they have already taken Professor Kwall's Survey Course. NOTE THAT THIS ANNOUNCEMENT ONLY AFFECTS CURRENT THIRD AND FOURTH YEAR STUDENTS WHO HAVE ALREADY TAKEN KWALL'S IP SURVEY IN THE FALL, 2010.
