About Intellectual Property Overview
Intellectual property, or “IP,” is at the center of some of today’s most important legal disputes. Accordingly, any well-studied lawyer ought to have knowledge of the topic. This course serves as an overview of major areas of intellectual property law, such as copyright, trademark, patent, trade secrets, and right of publicity. The class serves three purposes. First, it is aimed at students who want to learn the basics of IP law so that they become better able to identify IP issues that may arise in practice. Second, this course serves as a foundation for students who may later wish to take more intensive specialized courses such as copyright, trademark, and patent. Third, because the course is also available to 1L students, it serves as a way for students to integrate concepts found in other 1L courses, because IP law often reflects concepts arising from the law of torts, contracts, property, procedure, and even criminal law.
IP certificate
This course also counts as a core course towards the St. Thomas Law Intellectual Property Law certificate program.
The syllabus is available in electronic format, and contains information on the course, important links, books, learning methodology, grading, and much more. In short, the stuff we’ll be doing and why. Electronic syllabus
This page is the one you’ll come back to often. It contains our initial assignments and may be updated to reflect any changes. Assignments
This should be another section you frequent. It contains numerous pages (around 150 at the last count) filled with study resources such as problem sets, handouts, flowcharts, study questions, and much, much more. There are also links to my Civ Pro YouTube screencasts and reviews. Intellectual Property study resources
Last updated May 4, 2020