Grading
100% Other (This is a small, advanced, intensive course. Grades are not especially relevant; everyone does well. You will work very hard, but most students say it is the best thing they do in law school.)

Satisfies Senior Writing Requirement

Location

Class meets in person.

Course Continuity
Students are encouraged to stay home if you are ill or experience flu-like symptoms. If you miss a class for any reason, it is still your responsibility to make up the work missed.

I offer the following to students who miss class due to illness:

- If you are absent due to illness or some other unavoidable circumstance, email me and I can make PowerPoint slides or other class materials available to you.

- When you are better, please make an appointment to meet with me and I will review/answer questions about what you missed.

Meeting Times/Location
W 4:30PM - 6:30PM
Tanenbaum Hall 320

Category
Seminar

Credits
2.0

This is an intensive course in appellate advocacy in the patent law - that is, focused on Federal Circuit practice, procedures, and jurisprudence. Students will be divided into teams of two and work together on a complete simulated appeal—including issue identification, appellate strategy, brief drafting, and oral argument. The course will include participation in the AIPLA Giles S Rich National Patent Law Moot Court Competition.

Students should sign up for both fall and spring seminars, and ideally would identify a teammate (though this is not required).

The course typically has a slow start in the fall — we won't have regular meetings until about mid-October or so. We work intensively on appellate strategy (specific to patent law and the Federal Circuit) in the second half of the fall semester. You will have a substantial brief to write between the end of Fall classes and the first day of Spring classes. In January we work on brief editing and revising. February and March are oral argument workshops. March and April you compete nationally against other schools.

In almost all cases, having taken Patent Law is a required prerequisite — this is an advanced course, and you may be substantively lost without either that course or extensive experience in the field.

Students with questions about taking this course should contact Professor Wagner prior to signing up.

Course Concentrations

Skills Learning outcomes: Demonstrate an understanding of the individual course skill; Demonstrate the ability to receive and implement feedback; Demonstrate an understanding of how and when the individual course skill is employed in practice.

Courts and the Judicial System Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of both substantive and procedural issues in the operation of our legal system; Perform legal analysis in the context of procedural issues and the judicial process; Communicate effectively on topics related to procedure and the judicial process; Demonstrate an understanding of how procedural issues and the judicial process affect all other area of our legal system.

Intellectual Property and Technology Law Learning outcomes: Demonstrate a core understanding of intellectual property law; Perform legal analysis in the context of intellectual property law; Communicate effectively on topics related to intellectual property; Demonstrate an understanding of the interconnection between technology and intellectual property, and how they affect other areas of law and society.

Professional Responsibility and Ethics Learning outcomes: Demonstrate an understanding of how the law affects, and is affected by, the individual course topic; Perform legal analysis in the context of the individual course topic; Communicate effectively on the legal and other aspects of the individual course topic; Demonstrate the ability to use other disciplines to analyze legal issues relevant to the individual course topic, including economics, philosophy, and sociology, as appropriate.