Class Information
Fall 2026
6376 Intellectual Property Survey - MICHAELS- 14883
Professor(s):
Andrew Michaels (FACULTY)
Credits: 3
Course Areas: Intellectual Property and Information Law
Time: 2:30p-4:00p MW Location:
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: (Hybrid) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. Hybrid means that some of the weekly class sessions are virtual, and some are face-to-face. By definition, the hybrid instruction mode only applies to a course that meets two or more times a week. The instructor’s syllabus should indicate which regular days are virtual and which are face-to-face. If the course has a final examination, it will be conducted in a classroom in face-to-face mode requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid term exam, may also be in a classroom.
This hybrid class will meet on Zoom on Mondays and face to face on Wednesdays.
Prerequisites:
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Final Exam Schedule:
This course will have:
Exam:
Paper:
Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Available
Course Materials
Special Case
Course Materials: Paul M. Janicke, IP Survey Cases (2018)
Available for free, will be posted to canvas
