Intellectual Property and Technology Law
The Intellectual Property and Technology Law Program serves as the home for teaching and research about intellectual property and technology law at the College of Law and for the greater University of Illinois campus. Under its auspices, the Program offers almost two dozen courses, taught by more than a dozen full time and adjunct faculty. Program students have gone on to work for AmLaw 100 law firms, public interest organizations, government agencies, and as federal and state law clerks, including the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the nation’s top “patent court.” The Program is also home to the student-run Journal of Law, Technology & Policy, a scholarly publication dedicated to “new technologies that raise important policy questions in both foreign and domestic jurisdictions.” The Program also puts on a variety of programming throughout the academic year, including monthly lunchtime talks from intellectual property scholars around the world, and the Intellectual Property Reading Group, an informal, cross-campus scholarly collective that meets to discuss recent developments in intellectual property theory.
Director
Affiliated Faculty
Andrea Augustine
Joseph M. Barich
Aaron W. Brooks
David Glockner
Sara Gerke
Paul J. Heald
Faye E. Jones
Anthony Kakooza
Peter J. Maggs
Shoba Pillay
Charles Schmitz
Timothy K. Sendek
Ajay Shah
Courses
Advanced Issues in Patent Law
AI and the Law
Blockchain for Lawyers
Copyright Law
Cybercrime
Cybersecurity & the Legal System
Economics of Intellectual Property
FinTech Law & Policy
Fourth Amendment, Technology and Privacy
Genomics & the Law
Intellectual Property Clinic – Patent
Intellectual Property Clinic – Trademark
International Intellectual Property
Introduction to Intellectual Property
Patent Law
Patent Litigation
Patent Prosecution
Patent Research & Strategy
Privacy Law
Trade Secret Law
Trademark, Unfair Competition and Consumer Protection
Traditional Knowledge and Folklore in Intellectual Property
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