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The Center for Intellectual Property Law at The John Marshall Law School oversees programs in four major areas. First, the Center manages one of the country’s leading intellectual property (IP) education programs, including extensive IP course offerings for Juris Doctor (JD), Masters (MS), and Masters of Law (LLM) students. Second, the Center offers numerous programs for practitioners on a wide range of IP topics. Third, the Center brings some of the country’s leading academics to The John Marshall Law School to share their cutting edge research with the law school and Chicago communities. Fourth, the Center furthers research into new IP issues through the work of its faculty. These four aspects of the Center’s activities are summarized here.
IP Education
The John Marshall Law School and its Center for Intellectual Property Law offer three types of IP education.
For JD students, the Center offers the JD Certificate in IP Law. To obtain the Certificate, a student must, within the course work required for the JD degree at the John Marshall Law School, complete sixteen (16) credit hours from the intellectual property courses offered by the Center. For more information on the courses required for the JD Certificate in IP law, please see the JD IP Curriculum Guide.
For students seeking training in IP law, but lacking any prior legal degree or training, the Center offers the Masters of Science Degree in Intellectual Property (IP MS). This degree program is appropriate for persons seeking to become patent agents, persons registered as patent agents in foreign legal systems who are seeking training in United States IP laws, and persons pursuing careers in IP licensing. For more information on the MS Degree Program, see the MS/LLM Degree Information Request.
For students who have a prior legal degree (from either a United States or foreign institution) or substantial prior legal training, the Master of Law Degree in Intellectual Property (IP LLM) Program offers a means to gain in-depth training in a variety of IP disciplines. Two tracks of courses are offered within the IP LLM programs. The Patent Track is presented to provide extensive training to persons with technical backgrounds who anticipate pursuing careers as patent specialists. The General IP Track includes courses in a broader variety of IP areas for persons wishing to obtain detailed and practical knowledge in the full range of IP domains. For more information on the Center’s IP LLM program, see the LLM Degree in Intellectual Property, and the LLM/MS Degree Information Request.
IP Service to the Practicing Bar
The Center for Intellectual Property Law at the John Marshall Law School is the sponsor and co-sponsor of numerous programs on IP topics offered to legal practitioners. These programs are offered throughout the year, typically presented by leaders of the IP bar from Chicago and throughout the country. For example, in 2007, the Honorable Howard T. Markey Distinguished Lecturers were Pamela Banner Krupka (Chair-Elect, Intellectual Property Law Section, American Bar Association and Principle, Krupka Law Group) and Robert G. Krupka, Partner & Co-Chair, Intellectual Property Group, Kirkland & Ellis).
The highlight of the Center’s offerings for practitioners is its annual IP Updates Conference offered each February. As an example of the topics and senior judges and practitioners involved in one of these programs, the 2007 Conference included the following:
Recent Developments in Intellectual Property Law
Patent Law: Professor David L. Schwartz
The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, IL
Trademark Law: Theodore H. Davis
Kilpatrick & Stockton LLP, Atlanta, GA
Copyright Law: William H. Frankel
Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, Chicago, IL
Trade Secret Law: R. Mark Halligan
LOVELLS, Chicago, IL
Electronic Discovery Under the New Federal Court Rules:
Sharon D. Nelson & John W. Simek
Sensei Enterprises, Inc., Fairfax, VA
Featured Speaker
Beth Harris
Vice President and General Counsel
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Mediation of Patent Disputes & the New Federal Circuit Mediation Program
James M. Amend
Chief Circuit Mediator
Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago, IL
Wendy Dean
Acting Circuit Mediation Officer
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Washington, DC
Thomas F. Smegal, Jr.
Mediator, San Francisco, CA
Past President, American Intellectual Property Law Association
Past Chair, ABA Section of Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law
Willful Infringement & Waiver of Privilege
William L. LaFuze
Vinson & Elkins LLP, Houston, TX
Is Federal Circuit Obviousness Law Gobbledygook and Irrational?
George P. McAndrews
McAndrews, Held & Malloy, Chicago, IL
Jury Instructions in Patent Cases
Hon. Matthew F. Kennelly
United States District Court
Northern District of Illinois, Chicago, IL
Meredith Martin Addy
Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, Chicago, IL
Mark T. Banner
Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Chicago, IL
Brian D. Roche
Sachnoff & Weaver, Chicago, IL
Who Owns Culture? A Discussion of Ownership Disputes Relating to Art and Cultural Property
Joseph B. Brennan
Vice-President & General Counsel
The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
William T. McGrath
Davis McGrath LLC, Chicago, IL
Donald S. Burris
Burris & Schoenberg, LLP, Los Angeles, CA
Professor William Mock
The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, IL
The Top Ten Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Decisions of 2006
John L. Welch
Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi LLP, Cambridge, MA
Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006: Its Impact on Your Company, Clients or Practice
Jonathan S. Jennings
Pattishall McAuliffe Newbury Hilliard & Geraldson LLP, Chicago, IL
Copyright and YouTube
Evan D. Brown
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, Chicago, IL
IP Academic Programs
The Center for Intellectual Property Law also sponsors presentations by some of the country’s leading IP academics, bringing new viewpoints on IP issues to its students and the Chicago community. Academic presentations in the Center’s Distinguished Professor Speakers Series include:
Professor Jay Kesan, University of Illinois College of Law:
“Is There a Case for Specialized Patent Trial Courts - The Empirical Evidence”
Professor Richard S. Gruner, Director, Center for Intellectual Property Law, John Marshall Law School: “Patenting of Tax Strategies: When the Worlds of IP and Tax Attorneys Collide”
Professor Peter K. Yu, Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law and Director of the Intellectual Property Law Center at Drake University Law School: “The United States’ WTO Complaint Against China: Origins, Prospects and Implications”
Professor Sonia K. Katyal, Fordham Law School: “Property Altlaws II: The Anti-Delegation Doctrine in Intellectual Property”
Professor Shubha Ghosh, SMU Dedman School of Law: "IP as CP: Competition Policy Norms in Intellectual Property Law"
Other leading IP professors who have spoken at the John Marshall Law School in recent years include:
Conference on Innovation and Its Discontents
Professor Margo Bagley
Emory University School of Law
Professor Cynthia Ho
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Professor Timothy Holbrook
Chicago-Kent College of Law
Professor Christopher Holman
University of Missouri -- Kansas City School of Law
Professor Adam Jaffe
Brandeis University
Professor Jay Kesan
University of Illinois College of Law
Professor F. Scott Kieff
Washington University in St. Louis College of Law
Steven G. Kunin
George Mason University School of Law
Professor Kimberly Moore
George Mason University School of Law
Professor Katherine Strandburg
DePaul University College of Law
Professor Toshiko Takenaka
University of Washington School of Law
Conference on Creative Processes and the Public Domain
Professor Ann Bartow
University of South Carolina School of Law
Professor Michael Carroll
Villanova University School of Law
Professor Julie Cromer
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Professor Dennis Karjala
Arizona State University College of Law
Professor Roberta Kwall
DePaul University College of Law
Professor Llewellyn Gibbons
University of Toledo College of Law
Professor Kembrew McLeod
University of Iowa School of Law
Professor Jerome Reichman
Duke University School of Law
Professor Diane Zimmerman
New York University School of Law
Conference on Taxation of Intellectual Property
Professor David L. Cameron
Northwestern University School of Law
Professor Jeffrey Maine
University of Maine School of Law
Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen
Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law
IP Research
The Center for Intellectual Property Law at the John Marshall Law School is a Center for IP research conducted through its faculty. Representative research projects recently completed by faculty members include:
Professor Doris Estelle Long: "Outsourcing Culture: The Role of the Diaspora in the Commodification Marketplace"
Professor Doris Estelle Long: "Repatriation, Recapture and Vanishing Cultural Rights in the Information Age"
Professor Richard Gruner: "Where the Action Is: Using Patent Attorney Practice Locations to Identify Regional Centers of Commercially Significant Innovation"
Professor David Schwartz: "An Empirical Evaluation of Whether Federal Trial Judges with More Experience in Patent Claim Construction Are More Accurate"
Professor William Ford: "The Use of Trademarks in Video Games: Focusing on the First Amendment"
Raizel Liebler, Reference Librarian, Louis L. Biro Library: "Normative Cultural Contracts between Media Owners/Creators and Fan Communities"
IP Center Leadership
The work of the IP Center is overseen by the following personnel:
Richard S. Gruner
Director
William T. McGrath
Assistant Director
Michele A. Bridges
Executive Director
Mary R. Brassie
Administrative Assistant
Alex Cangiano
Administrative Assistant
Professor Doris Estelle Long
Professor Robert Jay Nye
Professor David L. Schwartz
Professor William K. Ford
If you have questions about the Center for Intellectual Property Law at the John Marshall Law School, please contact Alex Cangiano at 312-987-1422 or 6cangian@jmls.edu
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