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278.9 sec. 1 - Intellectual Property Transactions (Fall 2009)
Instructor: Christian Nadan (view instructor's teaching evaluations)
Instructor: Michele Nadan (view instructor's teaching evaluations)
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Units: 2
Meeting Time: Tu 6:20-8:10
Meeting Location: 12
Course Control Number (Non-1Ls): 49763
Main Section Enrollment:
Enrolled: 31
Waitlisted: 0
Enroll Limit: 35
As of: 11/25 06:43 AM
This course covers the myriad transactions involving intellectual property rights in the modern economy with an emphasis on the high technology industry. Increasingly, conventional transactional lawyering involves an intellectual property component; this course is designed to help those students preparing for a career in business or corporate law become comfortable and familiar with intellectual property rights. We will cover the law of ownership of rights (who is vested with rights initially under the copyright, patent, and trademark statutes); assignment of rights, especially in the employment context; licensing transactions (strategic transactions, UCC rights and warranties, shrinkwraps/webwraps, UCITA, open source); antitrust considerations, channel issues, and consulting/development relationships. We will not deal directly with the issuance and validity of rights, instead focusing solely on transactions involving them.
The course will give students the tools and skills they will need to draft and analyze intellectual property agreements. After developing the legal foundation outlined above, we will draw on high level practitioners from leading law firms and local high technology companies to explore the real world of intellectual property practice in fields such as merchandising, new media, and the Internet. In addition to lectures, students will have the opportunity to apply their new skills to an IP due diligence exercise and a mock licensing negotiation.
Prerequisites:
Introduction to Intellectual Property, or Copyright Law and Patent Law.
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Exam Notes: TH
Special Notes: LE(35)
Course Category: Technology and Intellectual Property
Course Subcategories:
Business Law
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Books:
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- Annalee Saxenian - Regional Advantage - Ed. 1998 or latest version - Publisher: Harvard Univ. Press - ISBN: 9780674753402
