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295.4F sec. 001 - Berkeley IP Practicum Clinic (Spring 2025)
Instructor: Allison Schmitt (view instructor's teaching evaluations - degree students only)
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Units: 2
Grading Designation: Credit Only
Mode of Instruction: In-Person
Course End: May 14, 2025
Enrollment info:
Enrolled: 12
Waitlisted: 0
Enroll Limit: 23
As of: 01/18 11:55 PM
The Berkeley IP Practicum offers students interested in IP law a hands-on experience, representing real startups in IP diligence, under the supervision of a practicing lawyer from a leading law firm. Students are teamed with a practicing attorney to perform an IP review for an early-stage start-up in the life sciences. Under the supervision of the practicing attorney, students meet with the client, learn about its innovative technology, and prepare an Intellectual Property Summary, complete with a summary of the Company’s IP strategy and a "freedom to operate" analysis, which the student presents to the client at the end of the semester and which the client can use in its financing activities.
Students will gain an in-depth understanding of the IP issues confronting early-stage businesses as well as hands-on, real-world experience working with entrepreneurs.
To enroll in the Berkeley IP Practicum, students must also enroll in the Berkeley IP Due Diligence Seminar (Law 295.4E).
Enrollment requires completion of Intellectual Property Law 275.3, or Patent Law 277W and a brief application due November 17, 2024. To help assess whether to admit you to the IP Lab and to help us match registered students to a start-up client, please complete the application listed below under Supplemental Files. Applications should be emailed to Allison Schmitt (aaschmitt@berkeley.edu), Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology Life Sciences Project.
All students should apply no later than November 17, 2024.
In the late fall, before Spring classes start, students who have been admitted to the IP Lab Seminar and Practicum will be matched with a supervisor and will be given the course number to enroll in the supervisor’s Practicum.
Attendance at the first class is mandatory for all currently enrolled and waitlisted students; any currently enrolled or waitlisted students who are not present on the first day of class (without prior permission of the instructor) will be dropped. The instructor will continue to take attendance throughout the add/drop period and anyone who moves off the waitlist into the class must continue to attend or have prior permission of the instructor in order not to be dropped.
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Submit teaching evaluations for this course between 14-APR-25 and 29-APR-25
Exam Notes: (None) Class requires a series of papers, assignments, or presentations throughout the semester
(Subject to change by faculty member only through the first two weeks of instruction)
Course Category: Intellectual Property and Technology Law
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