Updated:

1/3/2015

CENTER FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

Spring 2015 Course Schedule
Classes convene: January 20 Spring Break: March 8-15
Classes end: May 4 Final Exams: May 7-22

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday
P

Patents & Trade Secrets

Darryl Lim
3:30-5:30 p.m.
Exam

IP 402 / JD 197 (3)

Patent Office Practice
Arthur Yuan
4:00 5:00 p.m.
Exam

IP 409 (2)**
Trademark Litigation
Phil Barengolts
4:00 5:50 p.m.
Exam

JD 447 / IP 447 (2)

Trademark Clinic
(Basic)**
Catherine Simmons-Gill
Dates: Tuesdays
Times: 4:00 5:00 p.m.

IP 401 (3)
Substantive Patent
Law II
James Muraff
6:00 9:00 p.m.
Paper

Thursday

Fri/Sat/Sun

IP 407 / JD 195 (3)

IP Licensing
Scott McDonald and
Wallace Oliver
3:00 5:50 p.m.
Exam

IP 429VA (1)
Valuation of IP
Scott Weingust
2/06 -2/07
9:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m.
Take-Home Exam
IP 455 / ITP 455 (1)**
International Copyright
Law
Doris Estelle Long and
Marybeth Peters
4/03 4/04
9:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m.
Paper

JD 239 (2)
Basic Patent Clinic
Van Economou
Tuesdays
4:00 5:50 p.m.

IP 406 / ITP 406 (3)*

Copyright Law and
Practice (3)
Steve Wiser
Times: 6:00 9:00 p.m.
Exam

IP 429GL / ITP 429GL (1)

Master Class in
Globalization
Doris Estelle Long and
Vicki Allums
Dates: TBD
Times: TBD
Paper

IP 464 (3)
Biotechnology Patent
Law
Kevin Noonan
Dates: Tuesdays
Times: 6:00 9:00 p.m.
Exam

IP 400-W (3)*
Substantive Patent Law
Jeffrey Duncan

IP 403-W (3)*
Trademark Law &
Practice
Sanjiv D. Sarwate

IP 460 (1)
Bankruptcy and IP
Bevery Berneman
Friday/Saturday
4/10-4/11 (TBC)
8:30 a.m. 4:30 p.m.

Online Courses
IP 415-W (2)*
Law of Patents
Doris Estelle Long

IP 419 -W/ JD 215-W (2)

Entertainment Law
Jerry Glover

Non-Regular Courses
IP 431 (1-3)
Independent Research
in IP
As Arranged

IP 432 (3)
Dissertation in IP
As Arranged

IP 433 (1-2)
Clinical Education in IP
Law
As Arranged

IP439 (2cr) P
Advanced
Patent Clinic
Arthur Yuan
As Arranged
Paper

* Required course for LLM & MS Students

**Prerequisites apply. Please refer to the online catalog or contact the IP Center.
P
Online registration restricted to Patent Students. Please contact IP Center for registration permission otherwise .

Courses and Details are Subject to Change at the Discretion of the Center.

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Course Info
Description
Patent and Trade This course surveys two bodies of laws that are aimed to protect technological advances: patent law
Secret, Darryl Lim and trade secret law. These laws of innovation are becoming increasingly important in the
knowledge based economy. The subjects covered include the types of innovations that fall within
patent law and trade secret law, respectively, including contemporary debates regarding computer
software, biotechnology and business methods. The majority of the course time will be spent
studying specific patent doctrines relating to utility, disclosure, novelty and nonobviousness. While
patent and trade secret disputes often revolve around complex technology, an understanding of the
legal doctrines and underlying policies concerns in this introductory course do not require in-depth
knowledge of a technological field. Therefore, all students interested in intellectual property issues
are encouraged to join the course, especially since the topics discussed are growing increasingly
important to commercial activities generally.
Advanced IP
This seminar will focus on some of the recent intellectual property caselaw developments and the
Seminar, William recent scholarly literature. Readings will likely include Madhavi Sunder, From Goods to a Good Life
Ford
(Yale 2012); Orly Lobel, Talent Wants to Be Free (Yale 2013); Kal Raustiliala & Christopher Sprigman,
The Knockoff Economy (Oxford 2012); Jerry Brito, ed., Copyright Unbalanced: From Incentive to
Excess (Mercatus 2012); and Amy Gajda, The First Amendment Bubble: How Privacy and Paparazzi
Threaten a Free Press (Harvard 2015). The grade will be based on participation and three reaction
papers to the weekly readings.
Patent Clinic, Van I am teaching two separate courses in the PJMLS Patent Clinic, JD-239 and JD-439. The first is a
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complete course in how to write a patent application, using a real live invention and inventor. We
complete a review of an invention disclosure, interview the inventor, and meet with a draftsman to
get patent drawings. The major portion of the grade depends on the final paper which is a
complete application, including all parts: specification claims and abstract.

The second course JD-439 is the Advanced Patent Clinic, where we work with the US Patent Office
(USPTO) in their Law School Pilot program. to prosecute the patent applications to completion,
either to allowance or final rejection (we have not yet gone to appeal). Working under instructions
of a seasoned patent attorney, the instructor, the student has hands-on experience to provide input
with the USPTO Examiner to come to agreement as to what, if anything, is patentable. This may
include writing and filing responses to Office Actions, interchange with the clients to make sure their
invention is covered, and possible Examiner Interview.

A course pre-requisite (although not on the official course description) is to have taken at least one
substantive patent course.
Intellectual
We will survey the class the first week of class to better understand your backgrounds and particular
Property
interests, and where it is possible to focus the class a bit more in particular areas of broad interest,
Licensing Law
we will try to accommodate that focus.
Scott P.

McDonald
The goals of this class are twofold.

First, we seek to develop an awareness of key issues in intellectual property licensing sufficient to
enable the student to issue spot successfully and advise clients on key IP licensing issues.

Second, we want the student to develop the ability to understand how intellectual property
licensing facilitates the business goals of a client, and to develop and negotiate business focused
licenses at the term sheet level, in the language that business and technical leaders understand.

Certainly we will review clauses and agreements and provide practice drafting tips throughout the
semester, but the focus will remain on how to conceive of a license or licensing-related agreement
that is fit for business purpose, rather than word-smithing clauses and agreements. However, we
will present our principles for good contract drafting.
IP & Antitrust
This seminar focuses on the interface between IP and antitrust law. Patents, copyrights and
Law, Daryl Lim
trademarks confer exclusionary powers. The exercise of some aspects of these powers may impede
competition in the marketplace. Issues arising from the interface are amongst the most important

Advanced Patent
Clinic, Arthur
Yuan

Patent Office
Practice, Arthur
Yuan

Substantive
Patent Law II,
James Muraff

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ones facing practitioners today, and these issues can have a dramatic effect on the businesses they
counsel. The interface cuts across a wide path including such commercial aspects as licensing,
corporate strategy, product design, efforts to increase market share and mergers and acquisitions.

Upon completion of the seminar, students will learn how courts apply antitrust principles to the
exercise of IP rights, how to develop an effective compliance strategy based on the underlying
policies and how to communicate that strategy to clients. They will also be guided in developing a
writing sample based on an approved topic of interest to them, and have the opportunity to present
their research and obtain feedback on their work. There are no prerequisites for this course.
However, it is preferable that students have taken or are concurrently taking at least one course in
IP or antitrust law.

Guest lecturers may be invited to speak on specific topics. Past topics include: IP and Antitrust Law
in Practice, Compulsory Licensing as an Antitrust Remedy, Inequitable Conduct, IP and Antitrust
Issues in the Pharmaceutical Industry, and Patent Pools.
Advanced patent clinic is a clinic course (2 hours) in which each of the students who registered will,
after having qualifications reviewed by the USPTO, receive a limited recognition number to practice
before the USPTO during the semester. Each student will receive his or her share of actual patent
prosecution work, including patentability search, drafting patent (provisional and nonprovisional)
applications, responding to Office actions, etc. There will also be a newly added component about
learning about PCT filings and rules. The schedule of the course will be flexible as I try to do a one-
on-one session if possible, since each student works on different case throughout the semester.
Patent Office Practice focuses on chapters of the MPEP, the most important piece of materials for
anyone who wants to practice US patent law before the USPTO, as this is the texts to be tested in
the patent bar. You will be expected to study and review the chapters in MPEP. The lectures will
touch on key points in the chapters and there will be quizzes and a mock examiners interview as a
mid-term. The course will be taught on 8 days; 4 Friday-Saturday sessions.
The components of this course are:
1) Readings from the textbook identified below
2) Summary lectures (powerpoints) for each main topic
3) Reading court opinions, statutes, and some articles
4) Being prepared to recite cases in class that are assigned to you
5) Ability to review model case briefs thereafter
6) Paper of patent law topic chosen by student, and approved by the Professor
There is no final exam.
Our goal is that, in combination, these components will provide you with a valuable educational
experience.