Welcome! This webpage (rather than the Canvas system) will be the primary online home for Intellectual Property in Spring 2022.
Key information and documents
Classroom Notes, Presentations, Handouts, Etc.:
(Note: This slide deck includes slides for units 3 and 4.)
Course Polling:
Intellectual Property Supplementary Readings for Spring 2022
Book assignment information
The main casebook for the course is an open-source/open-access (a/k/a "OER") book:
- Introduction to Intellectual Property: Cases and Questions (Fall 2021 Edition) by Jason Rantanen. (This edition is also called the "Second Edition.")
This book is available for free download in PDF format. Make sure it's the Fall 2021 edition or "Second Edition."
Because of the book's Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License you have lots of options in terms of how you might access the Rantanen book:
- You could read it on your computer or tablet.
- You could print it yourself.
- You could have someone print it for you.
- You could purchase a printed copy from Amazon. Again, make sure it's the Fall 2021 edition or "Second Edition."
One thing to keep in mind: Assuming we have a normal exam (i.e., putting aside potential covid pandemic contingencies), then you will want to have a printed copy by the end of the semester to use on the exam. So you might choose to start the semester with a printed copy (which you might mark-up and highlight). But you might instead choose to wait until the end of the semester to print out a copy (which perhaps you will have marked-up electronically over the semester). That's up to you.
In addition, students will be required to access certain other online open-access materials, which they may choose to download and print.
Prior IP courses, in case you are interested in how I've taught the course in the past:
Wypadkis from Prior Intellectual Property Classes:
In editable .doc format: (Right-click to save file.)
In .pdf format:
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