Fall 2025
Professor(s):
Paul Janicke (FACULTY)
Credits: 3
Course Areas: Intellectual Property and Information Law
Time: ARRANGED Location:
Course Outline: Writing on a specific topic in patent, copyright, trade secret, or trademark law. Topics should best be chosen and approved before semester begins.
The paper must be submitted in three graded parts at specified dates about a month apart, and the composite final paper due by the last day of regular classes. No extensions can be allowed.
Learning Outcomes:
During your time in this course, you will develop competence in thorough legal research and persuasive writing on subjects in the field of intellectual property law. The writing will be thoroughly supported by authorities, and clear enough to be understood by persons unfamiliar with the subject. The finished work will likely be acceptable for publication in a respected journal.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Independent Studies) 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=9
Prerequisites: Yes Intellectual Property Survey, or Patent Law, or Patent Remedies & Defenses, or Trademark Law, or Copyright Law.
First Day Assignments:
Final Exam Schedule:
This course will have:
Exam:
Paper: Yes
Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: Yes
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA:
Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Instructor Preference)
Course Materials
No book required for this course
None. Each student chooses an acceptable writing topic and does their
own research in publicly available materials to develop the writing.
