Mission Statement

CIPLIT® was established to promote research and concentrated study in intellectual property and information technology broadly defined. We seek to develop IP professionals of the highest caliber through an all-inclusive learning experience that combines outstanding classroom education, innovative scholarship, first-class training in lawyering skills and an unparalleled range of extracurricular activities.

Program Description

The DePaul University College of Law Center for Intellectual Property Law and Information Technology stands in the forefront of IP legal education. With its ambitious activities and valuable opportunities, DePaul's Intellectual Property program, located in downtown Chicago, attracts students, academics, and employers from across the country and around the world. DePaul's IP/IT Program is well deserving of the national recognition it has garnered over the ten years since its inception. DePaul's broad and innovative IP/IT curriculum, offering four distinct IP/IT certificate programs as well as two joint degree programs with DePaul's School of Computer Science, Telecommunications & Information Systems (CTI), is unparalleled in legal education. For law school graduates, DePaul offers an LL.M in Intellectual Property in addition to its certificate programs.

While CIPLIT has become nationally known for its academic programs and faculty scholarship, students who participate in CIPLIT programs appreciate the extraordinary effort made by the faculty and staff to assist students in career development. Every year large numbers of students, including those who have completed the first and second year of law school and those who will graduate, find employment in the IP/IT field. Even though there are yearly job fairs where IP employers interview students from numerous law schools, employers who know of the quality of DePaul's CIPLIT students have asked for interview time to exclusively interview DePaul IP students on campus.

There are hundreds of loyal alumni who have participated in CIPLIT programs since its inception ten years ago. Those professionals are employed in IP and IT positions throughout the country and worldwide. CIPLIT has a Career Advisory Committee comprised of grateful and committed CIPLIT alumni who are eager to mentor students in an effort to assist them in devising career strategies. In coordination with CIPLIT, these attorneys are available for individual and group career counseling to our students.

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