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).
Instructor
Lotta Kiuru-Ribar ’13
Adjunct: General Curriculum
Course Information
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Patent Competition TeamCredits
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
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