A bill written by students at William Mitchell College of Law that would significantly lower legal costs for small businesses involved in trademark disputes with large corporations has been introduced in the Minnesota House and Senate. Read more of William Mitchell students craft bill to protect Minnesota’s small-business owners…
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William Mitchell students craft bill to protect Minnesota’s small-business owners
Category: IP Institute News
Get a candid insider perspective on the America Invents Act
Category: IP Institute News, SIPLA News
Please click here for information:
http://web.wmitchell.edu/news/2012/03/get-a-candid-insider-perspective-on-the-america-invents-act/
Proposed changes to IP curriculum for 2013
Category: IP Institute News, SIPLA News
After spending a year discussing this with all stake holders, I will be proposing the following changes:
1. Trademark Litigation and Trademark Prosecution will be eliminated. In their place, we will offer one 3 credit course each spring called Advanced Trademark Law. This course will combine practice before the TTAB, litigation and cutting edge issues largely brought on by the Internet and computerized use of trademarks.
2. Intellectual Property Transactions will be eliminated. In its place will be a 6 credit IP Keystone course called Intellectual Asset Management. This course will have the optional component of a Long Paper. If students elect to take the course and write their Long Paper (or any 25 page paper) for this course, two additional credits (totaling eight) will be allotted. The idea of this course will be to allow students to experience the full lifecycle of IP from conception, commodification, monetization, management (including buying, selling, or licensing) and, perhaps, extermination. It is contemplated that students in their last semester with the College would be most appropriate for this class. Prerequisites will be one of the following and IP Licensing: Foundations, Trademarks, Copyrights or Patents. Any student who may want to take this course in the spring of 2013 will have to take Licensing in the fall of 2012 (or have had taken it previously). The course will be project based. Each student will be assigned a fictitious corporation, its goals, its IP portfolio, etc. and expected to appropriately manage it in a wealth maximizing, ethical manner.
These changes have to be approved by the Curriculum Committee and the full Faculty. I anticipate that happening this spring for implementation next year.
Kenneth L. Port
Professor of Law and Director, Intellectual Property Institute
William Mitchell Students win Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association Cup Competition
Category: IP Institute News
<img title=”Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association” src=”http://web.wmitchell.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/mipla.gif” alt=”Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association” width=”170″ height=”130″ />For the third consecutive year, a team of William Mitchell students has won the annual Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association (MIPLA) Cup Competition. Third-year Mitchell students <strong>Daniel Bruzzone </strong>and <strong>Joseph Martyn</strong> were awarded first place in the final round, arguing against a team from St. Thomas University. The MIPLA Cup winners receive a $4,000 scholarship. <!–more–> William Mitchell is the only Minnesota law school to have placed a team in the final round of the MIPLA Cup Competition each of the five years in which it has taken place. This year’s competition included five teams from Minnesota’s four law schools. Teams present oral arguments before competition judges, who are among the state’s most distinguished intellectual property law practitioners.
MIPLA sponsors the MIPLA Cup Competition to help Minnesota law schools prepare their teams for the Giles Rich Intellectual Property Moot Court Competition, which held its Midwest Regional Competitions March 16-18. In the Midwest Regional competition, the <strong>Bruzzone/Martyn </strong>team was one of the top eight teams out of 26 teams competing, advancing to the semi-final round before being eliminated. Mitchell’s teams were coached by <strong>Jim Baker ’03</strong>, senior intellectual property counsel at 3M.
MIPLA is a non-profit organization formed to promote intellectual property law and enhance members’ professionalism. MIPLA members include attorneys practicing in patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secret law, patent agents, paralegals, and students interested in the practice of intellectual property.
MIPLA is more involved with local law schools than any other state intellectual property association in the country. MIPLA members generously give their time and scholarship dollars to help Minnesota law schools excel in educating future IP attorneys.