Intellectual Property Law Program
IDEA Volume 63, Number 2
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
IDEA is published three times a year by the students of the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law. For more than 50 years, IDEA has provided practical articles relating to patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, unfair competition, general intellectual property, and law and technology issues from around the world. Read More
IDEA Volume 63
Friday, January 13, 2023
IDEA is published three times a year by the students of the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law. For more than 50 years, IDEA has provided practical articles relating to patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, unfair competition, general intellectual property, and law and technology issues from around the world. Read More
Strategic Action Plan for Innovation-Driven Development in Sri Lanka: A Blueprint for the Future
Friday, November 18, 2022
Professor Stanley Kowalski and his group of six students will work together to research the situation in Sri Lanka to formulate a “Strategic Action Plan for Innovation- Driven Development in Sri Lanka: A Blueprint for the Future” under our International Technology Transfer Institute Clinic (ITTI). Read More
3L Sarah McMullin Reflects on Life as a Military Spouse and Pursuing a JD Degree
Thursday, November 10, 2022
As a mother of five and a military spouse for nearly two decades, Sarah McMullin, JD Candidate ’23, was looking for an opportunity to pursue a law degree that would be compatible with the uncertainty of relocation that comes with being stationed in the U.S. Army. Read More
2022/2023 Intellectual Property Speaker Series
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law is proud to host a series of outstanding speakers for our 2022/2023 Intellectual Property (IP) Speaker Series Read More
UNH Franklin Pierce hosts the US Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board hold their first in-person college tour since the pandemic. Read More
All About IP: The Legal Impact Podcast Round-Up
Friday, September 23, 2022
Over the course of the summer, several guests spoke on topics related to intellectual property law in conversations with A. J. Kierstead on the weekly podcast of UNH Franklin Pierce, The Legal Impact. Read More
The Legal Impact: Patenting Human Genes
Thursday, September 15, 2022
Professor Jorge Contreras, James T. Jensen Endowed Professor for Transactional Law and Director of the Program on Intellectual Property and Technology Law at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, discusses the legal impact of patenting human genes, especially as it relates to the 2013 SCOTUS decision in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics. Also discussed is the introduced "Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2022," which would explicitly overturn the Supreme Court’s ruling in Myriad. Read More
OPTing in to Optional Practical Training: How UNH Franklin Pierce LLM graduates are finding employment in the US
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
About six months before he graduated from the LLM program at UNH Franklin Pierce, Mudassir Husain, LLM IP ’22, began looking for jobs that would allow him to stay in the United States to gain practical experience in his area of interest.
Fortunately for him, Husain had a head start in the search process; he was working part-time in the Career Services Office (CSO) at the time and had constant access to employment listings. Read More
The Legal Impact: Copyright Jurisprudence of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Tuesday, September 6, 2022
Rebroadcast: Professors Ann Bartow and Ryan Vacca join the show to talk about their article on the copyright jurisprudence of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. This article was just published in the Nevada Law Journal. Read More