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Curriculum in Intellectual Property

The Intellectual Property Program at the Law School of the University of Connecticut provides a rigorous intellectual property curriculum with a remarkable faculty to student ratio, leading to a special certificate in the field granted by the Law School at graduation. Since students may take the survey course in Intellectual Property as an elective during the first year, they are able to enroll in regime classes and advanced seminars in the second and third years. Moreover, the Program creates a setting which encourages students to share their interest in intellectual property with each other; provides opportunities to meet with practitioners and policy experts in the area of law; and allows for highly individualized relationships with faculty through supervised writing projects and externships. The Program, for example, will be hosting this spring a speaker series, the Intellectual Property Tea, where specialists from major law firms, partners in intellectual property boutique practices, and policy experts will be visiting the Law School. It will also sponsor colloquia, hosted by students, along the lines of the recent Cultural Property Symposium. A limited number of students, entering the first year and within the first year, may be admitted to the Program upon successfully completing the application process.

The application for first-year Law School of the University of Connecticut students consists of completing the application form with basic information; a transcript of first semester grades; and a one-page, single-spaced letter explaining why the applicant wishes to participate in the Program. Application materials are due to the Intellectual Property Program by March 28, 2005. Selection will be determined by the entire Intellectual Property Program faculty, based upon demonstrated promise in the field and substantial interest in intellectual property.

The requirements for the certificate are:

• 15 credit hours of courses, including the introductory Intellectual Property Course plus at least one regime class (Patents, Copyright, Trademark) or, alternatively, two regime classes. Students will also be required to take an intellectual property seminar.
• Students may include in the 15 credit hours one class from a list of adjacent field courses. At least nine credits in listed courses must be taken by the end of the fourth semester in order for students to be eligible to receive a certificate upon graduation.
• A supervised writing (which meets the Law School's upper-class writing requirement) project under the direction of a member of the Intellectual Property faculty or, alternatively, a supervised externship in intellectual property, with a significant writing component.