Patent Drafting and Oral Advocacy Competition Team
This Competition team furthers students' patent research, patent drafting, and oral advocacy. In the Competition's Regional stage, the team prepares a written patent application and defends it before a judges panel. In the Competition's contingent National stage, the team amends the application and defends it before another judges panel. The course is open to 8 students (i.e., two teams of up to 4 JD and MS students).
Instructors
Paul Parins
Adjunct: General Curriculum
Lotta Kiuru-Ribar ’13
Adjunct: General Curriculum
Syllabus
Course Information
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Patent Competition TeamCredits
1F/1S
Prerequisites
Prereq or co-req one of the following: Law 5224 Patents, Law 5231 Patent Prosecution I, Law 5243 Patent Research & Writing, or Director of Patent Law Programs permission.
Student year
M.S. Patent Law
Grade base
A - F
Course type
Moot Court
* Indicates Concentration
Other Sections
Spring 2026
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