7127
Fall 2024
Multi-Semester Course

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). JD students should add themselves to the waitlist, share their resumes with the instructor, and request enrollment in the course.

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Patent Competition Team

Credits

1F/1S

Prerequisites

Prereq or co-req one of the following: Law 6224/5224 Patents, Law 6231/5231 Patent Prosecution I, Law 6243/5243 Patent Research & Writing, or Director of Patent Law Programs permission.

Graduation Requirements

Experiential Learning
Upper Division Legal Writing

Subject / Concentration

Intellectual Property and Technology*

Student year

J.D. - 2L/3L (Upper Division)
LL.M.

Grade base

A - F

Course type

Moot Court
* Indicates Concentration