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4.00 Credits
Study of rules of procedure for practice in the Patent and Trademark Office and of problems arising in patent practice, including: patent drafting, patent litigation, and counseling technology-based businesses. Students will be asked to represent one or more hypothetical clients. Prerequisites: Intellectual Property Law. Credit Type A.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the legal issues that might arise when a corporate client decides to enter the on-line commercial retail market. Students will explore a factual scenario that raises legal questions associated with the client's choice of technologies and providers, the security of its information and electronic transactions, contracts between the client and its technology and information providers and its customers, interstate and international jurisdictional issues, and liability for issue such as on-line indecency, libel, product disparagement, and advertising. Students will prepare written memoranda on various issues, negotiatiate and draft contracts associated with the business and prepare pleadings associated with the litigation of various issues. Prerequisites: Intellectual Property Law. Credit Type A.
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4.00 Credits
This course studies lawyer decision making by placing students in the role of lawyer in real cases and by analyzing decisions made in that role. The course consists of two parts, fieldwork and class sessions. In the fieldwork, students will assume the responsibility of representing clients in a variety of legal matters under the supervision of professors trained to work with clinic students. Clinic professors select cases based upon their educational value to enrolled students, and where possible students represent persons in need. Where appropriate, professors may choose to concentrate on specific types of cases, such as criminal law or landlord/tenant law. The class focuses on the role and skills of a lawyer using simulation, review, and discussion, and case rounds methodologies. A rigorous writing experience is a key component of the course. Prerequisites: Evidence and Intern's License. Upper-level, fifth or sixth semester of study. All students must take a capstone course or Law Clinic Intern. Prerequisite: Civil or Criminal Trial Practice or Civil or Criminal Trial Practice Lab. Credit Type A.
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2.00 Credits
This course explores the creation and protection of trademark rights, as well as other forms of protection offered under unfair competition laws. The course includes an examination of the legal and economic rationales underlying trademark law and basic issues of trademark law: the prerequisites to trademark protection, the scope of trademark rights, the registration process and the grounds for excluding marks from protection or registration, restrictions on the distribution of imitation or counterfeit goods, and the remedies available in trademark litigation. The course will also cover protection available under unfair competition laws including prohibitions on false advertising and publicity rights. Credit Type A.
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2.00 Credits
This course examines issues of intellectual property law raised by the exploitation and use of creative and commercial products in an international environment. General topics covered include: the negotiation and conclusion by states of different types of agreements prescribing standards of intellectual property protection, efforts to create supranational intellectual property rights, resolution of disputes between states regarding compliance with obligations imposed by international intellectual property law (primarily under the dispute settlement system of the World Trade Organization), the interaction of trade policy and intellectual property laws, and the private enforcement of intellectual property disputes involving international components. In the course of the class, students will study pertinent treaty regimes, including the Universal Copyright, Berne, Rome and Paris Conventions, WIPO, TRIPS, NAFTA and selected EU directives. Prerequisite: Intellectual Property. Credit Type A.
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2.00 Credits
This course will examine the law of the European Union as it impacts upon the protection of intellectual assets (patent, copyright and trademark law in Europe) and selected topics on EU or European national regulation of advanced technology. Such topics might include the impact of EU competition law on the development or marketing of new products or how European laws govern the development or importation genetically modified foods. Credit Type A.
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2.00 Credits
In-depth study of topics relating to protection of computers and computer software. Topics selected will be drawn from those of current interest in the practice of computer-related law. Of particular interest will be topics involving the availability and limits of protection under copyrights, trade secrets, patents, semiconductor chip protection, and trademarks for the computer industry. Credit Type A.
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2.00 Credits
This two-credit course will explore the legal issues affected by on-line and computer-related criminal conduct. Specifically, the course will examine the application of extant and evolving criminal law doctrines to conduct committed and/or mediated via computer and information technology. It will examine three primary areas: (1) how substantive criminal law principles (extant and emerging) should apply to antisocial conduct facilitated via the use of computer and other emerging technology; (2) how procedural law should apply to the investigation of offenses resulting from such conduct; and (3) how the evolving phenomenon of cybercrime challenges traditional notions of sovereignty. Credit Type A.
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2.00 Credits
Introduces students to the U.S. federal regulatory law governing the ownership and operation of broadcast radio and television, cable television, and satellite video technologies. Emphasis will be placed on students learning to engage in a comparative analysis of the regulatory schemes for various communications technologies. The course may also examine some contrasting regulatory approaches in different countries to the regulation of technology and content. Credit Type A.
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2.00 Credits
The areas studied are international trade policy, international taxation, international antitrust, extra-territorial jurisdiction, boycotts, the foreign Corrupt Practices Act, letters of credit, export licensing, investment treaties, and the U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Special contract provisions, including those dealing with arbitration and choice of law, also are covered. Prerequisite: Business Organizations. Credit Type A.
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