ML: Technology Law and IP (McNichol)
Additional Information
Skills Training
Oral Presentations
Other Professional Skills:
Grading
20% Participation,
40% Exam,
40% Other (One in-class presentation with a supporting paper and visual aides.)
Exam
Short Answer,
Essay,
Take Home,
Open-Book
No
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 ask for volunteers among your classmates to share their notes with you.
- I will make PowerPoint slides or other class materials routinely available on the course site to everyone in the class.
- Please make an appointment to meet with me and I will review/answer questions about what you missed.
Meeting Times/Location
T 6:00PM - 8:45PM
Golkin Hall 330
Category
Masters in Law
Credits
3.0
In today's digitally-connected world, technology has become integral to almost every business and protecting one's intellectual property has become a top priority. Simultaneously, emerging technologies raise questions not readily answered by existing legal precedent and introduce novel ethical quandaries with which professionals must grapple.
Accordingly, professionals in almost every discipline can benefit from a deeper understanding of the legal and ethical frameworks applicable to everyday decision-making vis-à-vis technology. Not only must professionals understand the laws that apply to their products, services, and technological innovations, which can be difficult given that these legal constraints often involve a considerable amount of indeterminacy, but also they are frequently subject to ethical obligations specific to their profession or, in any event, must contend with difficult questions of morality.
Technology and IP Law provides students with key legal and ethical principles that technology professionals employ as they innovate and carry out their professional responsibilities. Students will have opportunities to analyze real, cutting-edge issues from the bottom up, the way a practicing technologist would experience them. Major topics will include intellectual property ground-work and implementation, legal and ethical repercussions for product design and improvement, privacy considerations, and considerations within the definitions of employment. Students will also engage in in-depth classroom discussions exploring technologically innovative situations and related decision making from various viewpoints.
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.