Intellectual Property Rights, IP Litigation, Economics, and Innovation
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Overview of US intellectual property law: copyright, trademark, trade secret, and patent law. Discussion of the economic and competitive benefits of intellectual property protection for companies and individuals, as well as the impact of intellectual property claims on individual economic decisions like cell phone purchases. Interactive exercise on patent claim drafting introduces students to the particularities of legal language and the difficulty of describing specific items and phenomena with clear, simple words.