News & Events

07/01/2021 - DePaul Law Alumna Kari Kammel Testifies Before U.S House Judiciary Committee

In May 2021, DePaul law alumna Kari Kammel (JD '08), assistant director of education and outreach at the Michigan State University Center for Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection, testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet on the SHOP SAFE Act of 2021 in her first appearance before the...

03/05/2021 - DePaul Law Student Mary Hannon Publishes “The Patent Bar Gender Gap”

​​​​In November 2020, DePaul law student Mary Hannon ('21) published “The Patent Bar Gender Gap: Expanding the Eligibility Requirements to Foster Inclusion and Innovation in the U.S. Patent System" in the Indiana University Maurer School of Law's IP Theory online journal.  In the article, she examines the lack of diversity in patent bar membership due to...

07/27/2020 - IP/IT Faculty Achievements – Spring-Summer 2020

CIPLIT® would like to congratulate its IP/IT faculty members for their remarkable achievements throughout the first half of 2020. These include publishing articles on the importance of legal tech education and the doctrine of equivalents, winning an award for cultural heritage preservation, and publishing a book on Jewish tradition, among many other accomplishments....

03/30/2020 - Faculty Profile: Roberta Kwall

​Roberta Kwall is the Raymond P. Niro Professor of Intellectual Property Law; teaches Family Law, Property Law and Intellectual Property (IP) Law; and is the founder of the Center for Intellectual Property Law & Information Technology (CIPLIT®) and co-founder of the Center for Jewish Law & Judaic Studies.  Her latest book, Remix Judaism: Preserving Traditions in a Diverse World, was...

09/03/2019 - DePaul Alum and Adjunct Professor Jeff Becker Named to Billboard Magazine’s Top Music Lawyers List

DePaul Law and CIPLIT congratulate alum and adjunct professor Jeff Becker, chair of Swanson, Martin & Bell, LLP’s Entertainment and Media Law Practice Group, for being named to Billboard Magazine’s 2019 Top Music Lawyers list. The only Chicago attorney to receive this honor, Becker has represented numerous local artists including Chance the Rapper and Valee, as well as national names such as...

06/06/2019 - Recent CIPLIT® faculty achievements

The Center for Intellectual Property Law and Information Technology (CIPLIT®)'s distinguished faculty works in a broad range of intellectual property areas, including copyright, patent, innovation policy, trademark, art and cultural heritage law, cyberlaw, data protection and moral rights. Recent achievements include: Professor Joshua Sarnoff testified before the US Senate on Tuesday, June...

05/31/2019 - DePaul IP program ranked in preLaw Magazine and U.S. News & World Report

For the fourth year in the row, DePaul College of Law's Intellectual Property Law program received an A+, the highest rating, from preLaw Magazine, a national publication that is read by more than 45,000 law students, professors and law school administrators. DePaul also received the highest grade in Technology Law from 2016 to 2018. The magazine graded law schools based on the breadth of...

03/22/2019 - DePaul student receives 2018 Scandaglia & Ryan Intellectual Property Legal Writing Award

Scandaglia Ryan LLP presented the 2018 Scandaglia & Ryan Intellectual Property Legal Writing Award to Jacob Michalakes. The award has been founded and supported by Scandaglia Ryan LLP since its inception in 2002 and is given every year to the student who receives the highest grade in the first-year IP Legal Writing Program. ​​

02/14/2019 - Congratulations to DePaul's Lefkowitz moot court team

DePaul Law and CIPLIT® congratulate Isaku Begert (3L), Zack Johnston (2L), Randi Leath (3L) and Jake Michalakes (2L) for taking the second place in the Regional Rounds of INTA’s 2019 Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court Competition on February 9, 2019, and advancing to the National Finals at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. The competition focuses on issues of US...

10/26/2018 - DePaul Law welcomes judges from US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

On October 2, 2018, DePaul University College of Law was extremely fortunate to host a wide-ranging discussion with the Chief Judge, Sharon Prost, and three Circuit Judges, Jimmie Reyna, Richard Taranto, and Todd Hughes, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Professor Joshua Sarnoff moderated the discussion, which addressed topics ranging from the kinds of issues that the...