Scholarships:

LGBT Patent Law Scholarship

Jeremy Protas, a DePaul alum, of Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP has established a $1000 scholarship for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender law students who want to pursue a career in patent law.

Candidates must be 2L’s for academic year 2009-2010 and be eligible to sit for the patent bar. Applications are due by July 31, 2009.

More information can be found here.

Previous Scholarships:

2008 Jan Jancin Award

Each year the College of Law chooses one student to be nominated for the Jan Jancin Award administered by the American Intellectual Property Law Education Foundation (AIPLEF). A description of the award can be found here.

Students interested in being considered as the law school's nominee for this award must complete the application found here and submit a resume and a one-page essay discussing their personal achievements in the field of IP law. These materials should be submitted to Professor Bressler no later than May 15, 2008. Any questions should be directed to Professor Bressler.

The Allen J. Hoover Memorial Award

The family of Allen J. Hoover and the law firm of Wood Phillips created this $5,000 award in memory of the late Allen J. Hoover.

Eligible students (1) have taken and passed the patent bar exam, (2) be currently enrolled for the Spring 2008 semester, (3) have earned a minimum of 63 credit hours, no more than 6 of which are transfer credits and (4) have filed an application consisting of a resume and proof of having passed the patent bar exam.

The student who has met all of the above requirements and who has the highest GPA including grades for Fall 2007, will be chosen to receive this award.

To read more information, please visit the following links:
DePaul University Press Room
ABA Journal
Chicago Tribune

Announcing the 2007 Donald W. Banner Corporate Intern Scholarship

Two $10,000 scholarships will be awarded to outstanding law students who have completed an internship in a corporate intellectual property law department and intend to pursue a career in intellectual property law.

SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION

Application Deadline: Friday, October 12, 2007 (Applications available soon. Check www.ipoef.org for details)

Eligibility Requirements: Applicants must have completed an internship in a corporate intellectual property department and must be enrolled in law school in 2008.

Required Supporting Materials:

  1. A statement about the corporate internship experience;
  2. A statement explaining why the applicant intends to pursue a career in the field of IP law;
  3. A reference from the company with which the student interned; and
  4. Evidence of academic achievement in law school.

Scholarship recipients will be notified in November and recognized at an award ceremony on January 28, 2008 in Santa Barbara, CA. (Travel and accommodations provided by IPO Education Foundation.)

The Foundation publishes a list of companies on its website that offer IP department internships

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!