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Welcome to the Intellectual Property Institute at the University of Richmond School of Law.
UR law starts Intellectual property & transactional law clinic
Professor John Carroll is getting ready to open the Intellectual Property and Transactional Law Clinic in Spring 2010 with the first set of students. The clinic allows the students to get on-the-job experience in a variety of intellectual property and business-related legal matters.
third annual evil twin debate
On October 9, 2009, the IPI held its third annual Evil Twin Debate, featuring Professor John Duffy of George Washington University Law School and Professor Jay Thomas of Georgetown Law Center debating "Bilski and Patentable Subject Matter: Method or Madness?"
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More information and a link to the video can be found here.
SIPLA's Fall 2009 speaker series
The student group SIPLA hosted a speakers series with the theme of the intersection IP and other areas of law. The speakers included Bennett Fidlow of Schroder Fidlow (Entertainment Law); John Cox of Finnegan Henderson (Pharmaceutical Litigation); Bruce Matson of LeClairRyan and Ben Ackerly of Hunton Williams (IP Licensing and Bankruptcy); and Dennis Rainear of New Market (IP in Corporate Law).
FACULTY News
IPI Faculty Publish Articles
Professors Jim Gibson and Chris Cotropia have an article forthcoming in the UCLA Law Review in Spring 2010 entitled "The Upside of Intellectual Property's Downside." Professor Cotropia also published "Copying in Patent Law" in the North Carolina Law Review (with Mark Lemley); "Modernizing Patent Law's Inequitable Conduct Doctrine" in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal; and "Describing Patents as Real Options" in the Journal of Corporation Law.
IPI Faculty Presentations
Professors Jim Gibson and Kristen Osenga presented their respective papers at the Intellectual Property Scholars Conference at Cardozo Law School in August 2009. Professor Gibson presented a paper at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Annual Meeting, also in August 2009. In June 2009, Professors Chris Cotropia and Kristen Osenga presented papers at a symposium at George Washington University Law School entitled "Patents and Entrepreneurship in Business and Information Technologies.