IDEA®: The Intellectual Property Law Review
IDEA®: The Intellectual Property Law Review (ISSN 0019-1272) is published four times a year by the students of Franklin Pierce Law Center. To date, IDEA has published forty-nine volumes. For nearly fifty 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.
The journal's mission is to be recognized worldwide as the premier intellectual property publication providing practical articles which address new, controversial, and potential developments in intellectual property and related fields.
The History of IDEA
Franklin Pierce Law Center is home to IDEA: The Intellectual Property Law Review—one of the oldest intellectual property publications in the world. During the upcoming 2008–2009 academic year, IDEA will embark on publication of its 49th volume.
IDEA’s history began in 1957, the year the Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal of Research & Education was first issued by the Patent, Trademark and Copyright (PTC) Research Foundation. Established in 1949 as a nonprofit foundation at George Washington University, the well-known PTC Research Foundation is now the research and educational arm of the Academy of Applied Science relating to intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and scientific or technical information. Many current intellectual property practitioners, academicians, industrialists, and government officials may have forgotten the genesis of the PTC Research Foundation. The PTC was founded by the patent section of the American Bar Association and was formed to serve the United States and the world at large.
In 1973, Robert Rines founded the Franklin Pierce Law Center with a specialty in training lawyers in the area of intellectual property law. That same year, the Law Center also became the home of the PTC Research Foundation and IDEA. In 1999, the Academy, recognizing the importance of continuously advancing education, knowledge, and understanding of the law as it affects the progress of science and the useful arts in innovative processes, became the official home for the PTC Research Foundation. IDEA remained a Pierce Law publication at the time of the relocation of the PTC in 1999, where it continues to serve as a well respected intellectual property law review of academic note with interdisciplinary and practical features.
In 1977, the publication first incorporated IDEA in its title. In 2002, the journal’s name was changed from IDEA: Journal of Law and Technology to its current name, IDEA: The Intellectual Property Law Review. Though the name of the journal has changed a few times over the years, the journal continues to provide practical articles which address new, controversial, and potential developments in intellectual property law. Moreover, the publication continues to provide a forum for domestic and international authors to publish cutting-edge articles on intellectual property law topics.
