Academic Programs
Certificate Eligibility
To be eligible for this Certificate upon graduation, students must earn eight credits beyond the minimum required to graduate with a J.D. - or usually a total of 96 total credit hours. Of that, at least 15 must be earned from the Core Curriculum. Students also must take at least two courses/seminars from the Related Curriculum as listed below.
A. Core Curriculum
Each student must earn at least 15 credits from the core curriculum below and must take at least three of the first four courses listed:
- Must take three of these:
Intellectual Property Survey (2 or 3 credits)
- Students may not enroll in Survey course if they already
have taken, or by the end of semester in which they would
be enrolled in the IP Survey course will have taken,
two or more of the other courses in this core curriculum.
NOTE: This course will count towards the Certificate only for students enrolled prior to Fall 2001.
Copyright Law (2 or 3 credits)
Patent Law (2 or 3 credits)
Trademark Law (2 or 3 credits)
- Balance of your 15 credits from these:
- International Intellectual Property Law (2 or 3 credits)
- Intellectual Property Litigation (2 credits)
- Intellectual Property Theory Seminar (2 credits)
- Internet Intellectual Property or Law of Cyberspace or Law and
- Computers (2 credits)
- Licensing (2 credits)
- Media Law (2 or 3 credits)
- Patent Drafting and Prosecution I (2 credits)
- Patent Drafting and Prosecution II (2 credits)
- Telecommunications (2 credits)
- Trademark Practice and Procedure (2 credits)
B. Grades
For courses and seminars taken in fall 2003 and thereafter, the student must maintain a
minimum grade point average of 3.3 with respect to the 15
credits from the core curriculum. A student who takes more
than 15 credits from within this curriculum will satisfy
this requirement if he or she maintains a 3.3 average for
15 of these credits. The minimum g.p.a. for qualifying courses
and seminars taken prior to fall 2003 is 3.0.
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C. Writing Requirement
The student must satisfy, in addition to the senior writing requirement all J.D. students must satisfy, a certificate writing requirement.This can be done through enrollment in a seminar from among the core curriculum listed above or the related curriculum described below, provided: (1) student's seminar paper is on intellectual property-related topic, and (2) the student earns B or better in the seminar.
D. Required Related Courses
Students must take at least two courses or seminars from the following related courses and seminars:
- Administrative Law
- Antitrust
- Corporations
- Federal Courts
- Franchising
- Law and Economics
- Sports Law
- Business Organizations
- Civil Procedure II (if offered)
- Ethics of the Human Genome Project
- Food, Drug & Cosmetic Law (if offered)
- International Financial Crimes
- International Business Transactions
- International Trade Law