2023-24 Intellectual Property Law & Information Technology

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

DePaul’s intellectual property law and information technology program consistently ranks among the nation’s best and provides outstanding career development and counseling, as well as numerous experiential learning and extracurricular opportunities. Led by renowned scholars and faculty experts, it offers a unique interdisciplinary and cutting-edge curriculum covering an extensive range of patent, copyright, trademark and information technology issues, as well as specialty areas like Internet law, data protection law, and art and museum law.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

CERTIFICATES: Arts & Museum Law; Information Technology, Cybersecurity & Data

Privacy Law; General Intellectual Property Law; or Patent Law

To earn a certificate in one of these areas, you must complete the 86 credits required for the JD degree. Within the required coursework, you must complete at least 15 credit hours from the approved course list and earn a minimum GPA of 3.20 in the certificate courses. If you take more than 15 hours from the approved list, all grades earned in those courses will be factored into the GPA requirement for the certificate. You may apply for only one certificate.

For detailed course requirements for each certificate, visit go.depaul.edu/certificates

PROGRAM OPPORTUNITIES

• Cross-listed courses with the Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media

• Externships with intellectual property law firms, museums and foundations

• Legal Analysis, Research & Communication

I & II: Intellectual Property

• Technology/Intellectual Property Field Clinic (TIP Clinic ®)

• Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law

• JD/LLM in Intellectual Property Law & Information Technology

• JD/MS in Computer Science

• LLM in Intellectual Property Law & Information Technology

• Center for Art, Museum & Cultural Heritage Law

• Center for Intellectual Property Law & Information Technology (CIPLIT®)

• Art & Cultural Heritage Law Society

• Entertainment & Sports Law Society

• Intellectual Property Law Society

• Moot Court

For details on program opportunities, please visit go.depaul.edu/ciplit

UPPER-LEVEL COURSES

Course offerings may vary from year to year.

• Advanced Patent Law

• Art & the Law

• Copyright Law

• Customs Law

• Cybersecurity Law

• Data Breach Notification Laws

• Data Privacy Law: US & EU

• Disaster Recovery Theory Strategies

• Entertainment Law

• Externship Program

• Field Clinic Practice & Seminar: Technology/ Intellectual Property

• Food & Drug Law

• Information Security Management

• Intellectual Property for Corporate Transactional Lawyers

• International Intellectual Property

• Internet Law

• Introduction to Programming

• Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law Editorial Board

• Legal Drafting: Art Market Transactions; IP Licensing; Patents; Trademark & Copyright

• Legal Responsibilities in IT

• Litigation Strategies: Intellectual Property

• Music Law

• Music Transactions: Representing Talent

• Patent & Trademark Searching

• Patent Law

• Practical Legal Research: Cultural Heritage; IP; Legal Practice Technology

• Privacy Law

• Senior Research Seminar

• Special Topics in Law

• Sports Law

• Trademark & Unfair Competition Law

• Trade Secret Law