Intellectual Property

Catalog description

This course explores how the law assigns ownership interests to persons or entities in their artistic, academic, technological, or other creations. This course surveys the major categories of intellectual property to include copyright, trademark, and patent. Attention will also be given to the concepts of reverse engineering and independent discovery. Students will examine the history of intellectual property as well as the underlying public policy decisions, statutes, and court cases that form the basis of intellectual property law.