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UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law and the Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership and Public Service Host Symposium on Election Law
Friday, October 14, 2022
In a few short weeks, millions of voters across the country will go to the polls and cast their ballots in the 2022 midterm elections. This year’s elections take on heightened significance because a few key races will determine control of both chambers of Congress. Read More
UNH Franklin Pierce Hosts Collaborative Divorce New Hampshire at Its Concord Campus
Thursday, October 13, 2022
The event celebrated the first anniversary of the passage of the NH Uniform Collaborative Law Act Read More
UNH Healthcare Vitals: Sage Hospital Price Transparency Tool
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
The new Sage Hospital Price Transparency Tool Includes Hospital Payor Mix, Quality Scores, and Relative Prices for Hospitals in NH and the US. 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
UNH Franklin Pierce Hosts Government Officials, Civic Leaders, and Renowned Scholars at Annual UNH Law Review Symposium
Friday, September 16, 2022
One-day live and streaming event focuses on Contemporary Issues in Election Law 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
2022 Annual Academic IP Roundtable
Friday, September 2, 2022
Scholars of all levels are invited to participate in the Annual Academic IP Roundtable, hosted by the UNH Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property in Concord, New Hampshire. The event will feature Works-in-Progress presented by scholars from across the country and around the world. Read More