DePaul University College of Law

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 College of Computing and Digital Media (CDM), 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.

We invite you to review the rest of our website to find out more about CIPLIT's excellent programs.

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News

9th Annual CIPLIT Symposium & Niro Lecture

Cyberlaw 2.0: Legal Challenges of an Evolving Internet

October 15-16, 2009
DePaul Center 8005

Cyberlaw 2.0: Legal Challenges of an Evolving Internet brought together a group of distinguished scholars to contemplate the ramifications of new internet technologies and the changing role of the internet in society. These developments bring, as technological advances often do, both opportunities and risks. Correspondingly, cyberlaw doctrine now confronts challenges resulting from the increasing importance of social networking applications and cloud computing, the drive toward “personalization” of search, advertising, and other internet experiences, and, as life is lived more and more online, the related threats to private life caused by the potential to store more and more complete records of individuals’ experiences. Our speakers explored the ways in which Web 2.0 and beyond affects a wide spectrum of legal issues, ranging from privacy and freedom of expression through intellectual property.

The 12th Annual Niro Distinguished Intellectual Property Lecture and Luncheon was sponsored by Niro, Scavone, Haller & Niro. It was held on October 15, 2009 in conjunction with the Symposium. This year the lecture was given by Mark Lemley, Stanford Law School’s William H. Neukom Professor of Law.

For more information including Papers and Powerpoints from the lectures, a list of Featured Speakers, and the Symposium Schedule, please visit our Symposium Website.

To read an article published in the Daily Law Bulletin about the conference, please click here.

Protecting Your Marks In & From the New Top Level Domains

September 16, 2009
12:00pm – 5:00pm
DPC 8005

This half-day seminar took a detailed, practical look at the process by which an applicant becomes a registry for a new top level domain, as well as what a brand owner can do to stop a new top level domain that comes too close to an existing brand.

DePaul University College of Law is an accredited Illinois MCLE provider. This program had been approved for 3 hours of CLE credit.

For more information on this past event, please click here.

To watch videos from this event, download them from iTunes here.

Grammy Network Event

Building and Maintaining an Entertainment Law Practice Anywhere: Essential Knowledge, Marketing, Economic, and Ethics Considerations

September 10, 2009
3:00pm - 6:00pm
DPC 8005

A frank and factual discussion of the realities and practicalities of developing and maintaining an Entertainment Law Practice with an emphasis on Music Law and Business. Special attention was paid to the law office economics and ethical considerations consistently facing pro-active practitioners. Relevant cases, statues, rules and regulations governing these issues was raised also and was referenced and discussed.

DePaul University College of Law is an accredited Illinois MCLE provider. This program was approved for 2 hours of CLE credit.

For more information on this past event, please click here.

Visiting Artist Series
featuring Jazz Musician, Frank Catalano

Our 2009 Visiting Artist, noted jazz musician Frank Catalano, visited DePaul to discuss his working relationship with his attorney, Gregg Gansmann, and some of the legal issues he has faced in building a performance career in music.

See the news release from DePaul University here.

Click here to see videos from the event!