Fall 2025
Professor(s):
Elizabeth King (ADJUNCT)
Credits: 2
Course Areas: Intellectual Property and Information Law
Practice Skills - Clinics and Externships
Time: 2:30p-4:30p TH Location: 260
Course Outline: Students will represent clients from various industries, primarily small business owners, and they will focus on trademark prosecution and counseling, including creating search strategies, employing legal and fact-based analysis, and giving advice to clients on successful trademark protection strategies both at the USPTO and in commerce.
Students must apply to the Clinic by submitting the online application at https://uhlc.wufoo.com/forms/m1263f5v0xj9tln/. Students should not attempt to enroll themselves in this course. If you are accepted, the Clinic Program Manager will enroll you via the Office of Student Services. For fullest consideration, please apply before course registration opens.
Students must work in the Clinic 50 hours per course credit hour.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.
Quota-3.
Accepted students must attend a mandatory 2½ day orientation held from Wednesday to Friday before the first day of classes. A Clinic student group picture will be taken during orientation. Students will receive a separate email with additional information.
The date and time of orientation can be found in the Clinic webpage at
www.law.uh.edu/clinic/clinic-orientation.asp.
Prerequisites: Yes Completion of 30 credits. Good academic standing.
Prerequisites: Yes Satisfactory completion of IP Survey or Trademark & Unfair Competition or Trademark Prosecution or co-registration with Trademark Prosecution.
First Day Assignments:
Final Exam Schedule:
This course will have:
Exam:
Paper:
Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: clinic
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Instructor Preference)
Course Materials
Course Materials: The Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure online https://tmep.uspto.gov/RDMS/TMEP/current; and Version 11 of Trademark Law: An Open-Source Casebook by Barton Beebe https://www.tmcasebook.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BeebeTMLaw-v11-digital-edition-2024.pdf
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Supplemental reading materials may be provided to students at least one week prior to the start of classes and supplemental materials throughout the semester through Microsoft Teams and/or email.
