LAW-8002 International Intellectual Property
Intellectual property laws are national laws, but an increasingly interconnected world recognizes the importance of common standards and fundamental principles, largely through IP treaties. Practitioners must recognize and understand the comparative law issues in IP, but must also be prepared to use the tools provided through the treaties to encourage IP protection and efficiency. International practice will also involve understanding common IP limits and exceptions, often put into place to facilitate socially positive goals of knowledge transmission and cultural enrichment. This course will look at trademarks, patents and copyright issues in turn, and will include short summaries of US IP approaches to assist in the comparative law issues. The emphasis will be on practical issues for practitioners, but will touch on certain questions of policy development for IP. Students will be evaluated based on short quizzes, a paper (which may qualify for the Suffolk legal writing requirement), and classroom participation. Instructor: Mark Seeley (for bio see https://scipublaw.com/bio-mark-seeley/)
Prerequisite
Student has received department permission for LAW 8002 - Intl Intel Property