Fall 2025

6376 Intellectual Property Survey - JANICKE- 15168

Professor(s): Paul Janicke (FACULTY)

Credits: 3

Course Areas: Intellectual Property and Information Law

Time: 1:00p-2:30p TTH Location: 211

Course Outline: This course covers domestic intellectual property laws - patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secret - through statues and cases. It is designed to afford the student who intends to practice in other areas an acquaintance with key IP issues, principles and doctrine, and to provide the intellectual property and information law specialist an introduction to the overall subject. The course will provide roughly equal treatment of patent, copyright and trademark law, approximately four weeks for each, with the remainder applied to the law of trade secrets, introduction, and/or review.

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.

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Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No

Experiential Course Type: No

Bar Course: No

DistanceEd ABA: No

Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Instructor Preference)

Course Materials

Special Case

Course Materials: Cases and Materials on Intellectual Property Survey (draft, unpublished), by Paul M. Janicke. This book will be distributed electronically by me, free of charge to all registered students. Applicable statutes are available online.

Recommended: electronic or paper versions of the Federal patent, trademark, and copyright statutes (all are in U.S. Code).