Intellectual Property Legislation Clinic
Students in the Intellectual Property Legislation Clinic design, draft and evaluate legislation on cutting-edge issues in intellectual property law. Problems involve copyright, patent and trademark protection and their implications for fair use, privacy, free speech, international trade and development and scientific research. Students may count the IP Legislation Clinic toward the Concentration in Intellectual Property Law.
Intellectual Property Legislation Projects
- Providing digital textbooks for handicapped children
Center for Applied Special Technology - Protecting local agricultural innovations from foreign patents
OXFAM America - Establishing intellectual property rights in digital databases
Mr. Justin Hughes, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office - Establishing "fair use" protection for use of software
American Library Association, Washington, D.C. - Reconciling conflicting rights in the exchange of digital music files
Mr. Harold Feld, Media Access Project, Washington, D.C. - Establishing "fair use" protection in the archiving of digital works
Prof. Randall Davis, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT - Preventing misuse of trademark and "anti-cybersquatting" protections to shut down Web sites critical of corporations
Mr. Harold Feld, Media Access Project
Washington, D.C. - Preventing the use of patents for "biopiracy"
International Intellectual Property Institute - Preventing the use of copyright protection to limit the competition in the manufacture of replacement parts
Electronic Frontier Foundation