Intellectual Property Law GW LAW HAS BEEN A NATIONAL LEADER IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY EDUCATION AND SCHOLARSHIP for more than 100 years. In fact, when the law school established a master’s of patent law program in 1895, its alumni already had written the patents for Bell’s telephone, Mergenthaler’s linotype machine, and Eastman’s roll film camera, among hundreds of other inventions; dozens more alumni had worked in the U.S. Patent Office. Today, GW Law is internationally known for its intellectual property law program, with significant strength in the areas of patent, copyright, trademark, privacy, communications, internet and cyberlaw, and genetics. In the early 1950s, long before the term “intellectual property” was widely used, GW Law recognized the close relations among patents, trademarks, and copyrights by establishing the Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Foundation, the country’s first research institute in any of those areas. In recent years, as intellectual property law issues have become more tightly interwoven with issues in commercial law, privacy, internet and cyberlaw, communications law, and the regulation of genetics and medicine, GW Law has been among the first to add faculty and courses in those areas. At the same time, we have not neglected our core strength in patents and have continued to develop an unparalleled patent law faculty and curriculum. The result: an Intellectual Property Law LLM Program that is second to none and that equips students to respond successfully to the innovations of the coming century.
Tina Chappell, Board of Directors Member for the Federal Circuit Bar Association and former Associate General Counsel for Intel Corporation, presented at a recent Patents in Telecommunications Conference.
The LLM degree program is designed for both U.S. and non-U.S. law school graduates interested in intensive study of U.S., international, and comparative intellectual property law. Many U.S. attorneys complete the program to gain the specialized knowledge necessary to practice, teach, or regulate in a legal field that has been one of the most important and most interesting for the last several decades. Many non-U.S. attorneys complete the program to get their first in-depth look at U.S. intellectual property law, while qualifying to take a bar examination that will enable them to practice in the United States, such as in New York.
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