Juelsgaard Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic: Clinical Methods

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In the Juelsgaard Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic, students help shape the course and outcome of significant legal and policy debates before courts, regulatory bodies, legislators, and other policy makers. Students in the clinic engage in hands-on representation of clients in cutting-edge matters involving IP (copyright, patent, and trademark) and other laws and technology policy that affect innovation, such as online speech and content moderation, AI regulation and accountability, tech and racial justice, antitrust, open science and open access, pharmaceutical regulation, privacy, cybersecurity, and more. Students draft amicus briefs for the Supreme Court or federal appellate and district courts, pursue litigation in district court, or submit detailed comments and live testimony in rulemaking proceedings before the FCC, Copyright Office, PTO, FDA, FTC, and other agencies. Students also provide counseling and legal advice to help their clients solve complex tech, IP or other innovation-related legal, technical, and business problems. Students may draft public-facing policy whitepapers or "best practices" documents to influence tech policy in ways that benefit innovators and innovation. Throughout the quarter, clinic students engage with and seek to understand the role that race, racism, and structural inequality play in the development, deployment, use, and regulation of technology. Our clients are non-profits and advocacy organizations; groups of innovators, entrepreneurs, technology users/consumers, legal academics, computer scientists, or technologists; or sometimes individual entrepreneurs, startups, biohackers, media critics, or open-source advocates, among others. Students' work ranges across tech areas such as internet/information technology, biotech, pharmaceuticals, and online speech and media. Our policy advocacy will often involve intertwined…