INTRODUCTION TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
(LAWF-4035) - 3 UNITS

This course surveys the four principal areas of intellectual property (IP) law in the United States: copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets. The course provides students with a comparative and broad-based understanding of the basic legal principles at work in each of these areas. While this course will equip students with a solid foundation for more in-depth study of one or more of these specific disciplines, it is designed to supplement a broad legal education, irrespective of whether a student intends to pursue further study or practice law in IP. Students who have taken this course may subsequently take one or more of the more specific IP courses (i.e., Patent Law, Trademark Law, or Copyright Law); however, a student who has taken any of these courses may not subsequently take this survey course without permission of the Associate Dean.

Pass/Fail:
No

Prerequisites:
None