Students

Each year, DePaul's outstanding IP/IT curriculum, faculty, and extracurricular programming attracts an increasing number of qualified students interested in the intellectual property program. The high caliber of these students creates a rigorous, invigorating academic environment.

IP Legal Writing Program
Our unique IP Legal Writing Program places specific emphasis on current topics in IP as part of the first-year Legal Research, Analysis & Communication curriculum. Admission into the program is highly competitive.

Placement Success
Each year, students in the First-Year IP Legal Writing Program and other qualified students are placed in paid IP/IT summer positions with a variety of firms and organizations after their first year of law school. Additionally, CIPLIT places upper level students in summer and permanent positions. These job opportunities provide students with valuable legal experience as a significant first step on their career path.

Study Abroad
The Center for Intellectual Property Law & Information Technology offers students many opportunities to study abroad. These opportunities allow students to appreciate and conceptualize the universal nature of intellectual property law.

IP Society
The Intellectual Property Law Society's mission is to put DePaul students in touch with the IP legal community, through mentoring, publishing a legal digest, and hosting practicing IP professionals as speakers. The IP Society also works closely with CIPLIT to offer DePaul students the chance to learn about the evolving and diverse legal landscape of IP, and strives to provide practical opportunities for students within their chosen career field.

IP Digest
The Intellectual Property Digest addresses a variety of issues in contemporary IP Law. The Digest is meant to act as a tangible resource that represents the members of the greater IP community at the College of Law. The focus is to provide the student body with an opportunity to express their interests in a particular area of IP law. Our mission is to allow our members to showcase their writing and research abilities so as to educate and engage the reader on a wide range of topical areas.

Contests & Competitions
This page contains information about intellectual property contests and competitions which are of special interest to law students. This page will give you information about IP writing competitions, Moot Court competitions, and Journal Write-Ons.

Scholarships
This page contains information about intellectual property scholarships which are of special interest to law students.

Journal of Art, Technology and Intellectual Property Law
Published twice a year under the direction of a student board of editors and in cooperation with the non-profit organization Lawyers for the Creative Arts. The Journal includes articles by students and professionals that address current legal issues in the visual and performing arts. Students who have completed their first year of law school in good academic standing are invited to join the Journal's editorial staff through a write-on competition.

Journal of Sports Law and Contemporary Problems
The problems that affect sports are the same ones that affect people in their everyday lives, form labor agreements to discrimination. This student-produced Journal explores these critical issues with articles written by professionals and students. The Journal also organizes and presents an annual symposium that addresses the most pertinent issues facing sports.

CIPLIT

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.

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Click here to see videos from the event!