The IP seminar will focus this year upon the law related to creators and inventors. Through the use of student writings and a set of weekly readings, this seminar will examine key themes arising in this area in a more in-depth way than is covered in a traditional classroom course. The first third of the course will primarily be spent critically reviewing and evaluating the writing of others in this area, so that students can learn to assess the strengths and weaknesses of written work and practice revising work to improve it. In the second two-thirds of the course, students will focus upon their own writing and will produce an original research paper. To apply, students should propose an area of any part of IP that is interesting, where we see individuals or groups struggling. This could be your grandfather, who was a famous photographer, and now your family doesn’t know what to do with his photographs. It could be that you have an invention for a new app, but are not sure how to protect it. It could be that you see small companies struggling to understand the role of social media in their businesses. (3 Credits)
Fall 2017
Elizabeth Townsend Gard
Intellectual Property & Technology
Seminars