Curriculum

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; or participation in the Intellectual Property clinic.