Intellectual Property

2 Credit Hours

This course will introduce the laws that create and delimit property rights in intangible goods such as inventions, expressive works, brand identifiers, or information. Collectively, these laws are known as "intellectual property law," an umbrella term which includes patent law, copyright law, trademark law, trade secret law, among other areas. The course will include discussion of the constitutional, statutory, and common law bases for the IP laws, as well as the competing policies underlying the laws.