INNOVATIVE NEW SKILLS COURSE: TRADEMARK CLEARANCE OPINION DRAFTING

® Professor McNichol is inaugurating a skills course for Spring 2017 on one of the most common trademark practice situations:  lawyers have to offer a reasoned opinion on whether a business’s proposed trademark can be used.  In order to support the simulations, he has negotiated free access to one of the principal commercial trademark clearance databases. … Continue reading INNOVATIVE NEW SKILLS COURSE: TRADEMARK CLEARANCE OPINION DRAFTING

Professor Ellen P. Goodman launches News Law Project

With funding from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, we have launched the RIIPL News Law Project.  There is a crisis and opportunity in journalism.  As established news organizations shrink, new digital ventures are expanding.  But these new ventures often lack the in-house legal resources that the larger press organizations enjoy.  The RIIPL News Law Project … Continue reading Professor Ellen P. Goodman launches News Law Project

Lastowka Writing Competition

Rutgers Institute for Information Policy and Law is pleased to announce the Lastowka Short-Form Writing Competition. Open to Rutgers students and recent graduates (class of 2015), the award will be given to an entry of 500-1,500 words on a topic of intellectual property or information policy more broadly. Professor Greg Lastowka (1968-2015) will be remembered … Continue reading Lastowka Writing Competition