Intellectual Property Law
The knowledge based "new economy," embodying both a dramatic rise in the importance of intellectual property and the globalization of economic activity, presents new challenges to the legal profession. Our Intellectual Property & Technology Law (IP/TL) program meets these challenges through a four-pronged approach.
- Our Intellectual Property Law brochure is now available for viewing.
- We offer numerous courses in this area of law in both our basic (JD) and advanced (LLM) programs. JD students may take (with permission) courses offered through the law school's LLM in Intellectual Property & Technology Law program.
- The Intellectual Property & Nonprofit Organizations Clinic under the leadership of Professor Charles R. McManis.
- The School's newest Center, is termed Center for Law, Innovation & Economic Growth. Launched in conjuction with the Clinic (described above) it will focus on the support of entrepeneurs through the interpretation and application of Intellectual Property Law. Details on its innaugural conference are now available.
- The LLM in Intellectual Property and Technology Law allows students to study introductory and advanced intellectual property and technology law and to scrutinize the policies affecting intellectual property and technology law under the guidance of leading scholars in the field. This degree fosters advanced competency in a specialization that increases in importance with each technological advance.
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The Director of the IP/TL Program is Professor Charles R. McManis, an internationally recognized scholar, lecturer, symposium editor, author, and consultant in intellectual property law. In 2003, McManis coordinated the school of law's conference, "Biodiversity, Biotechnology, & the Protection of Traditional Knowledge," which focused on the agricultural and plant aspects of the biotech revolution, including its impact on the protection of biodiversity. In the recent past, he was the co chair for the school's "Conference on Patenting Genetic Products" (2002) and the organizer for the "Conference on Intellectual Property, Digital Technology & Electronic Commerce" (2001) and the "Conference on Reengineering Patent Law" (2000). In addition to teaching a number of courses in IP, McManis is the director of the LLM Program in Intellectual Property and Technology Law.
Working with Prof. McManis is Professor Scott Kieff, the co author of a casebook and treatise on patent law, also teaches courses in the PI area. His research focuses on technology law and business, contracts, and unfair competition among other subjects. The Intellectual Property Law Society is also active in promoting the interests of IP students throughout the School.
For more information or questions about the IP Law program, contactDavid Deal, Administrative Director, Intellectual Property and Business Formation Legal Clinic, 314.935.7960 or email drdeal@wulaw.wustl.edu.
