Intellectual Property
Franklin Pierce Law Center is one of the world's premier law schools for
the study of intellectual property law. Pierce Law is a pioneer
in training lawyers of all backgrounds and specialties to deal with
technological and scientific legal issues, while at the same time
offering an internationally recognized program for specialists in
patent law and related intellectual property fields. Our
graduates are employed in leading patent firms, corporate legal
departments, software companies, and broadcast networks around the
world.
Pierce Law offers the most extensive selection of intellectual property
courses in the country, exposing students to a wide variety of current
intellectual property issues. Our nationally and internationally
recognized policy is making seminars and conferences act as both a
catalyst and a testing ground for ideas and concepts in their formative
stages. Pierce Law continues its mission, as a pioneer in integrating
intellectual property studies into legal education, while maintaining
its position as one of the nation's smallest independent law schools.
Approximately 35% of students at our law school have the solid training in
engineering or the physical sciences required for patent law
itself. The intellectual property programs are also designed for
students specializing in those areas for which a science or technology
background is not required. These areas include copyrights for
literature, art, or computer software; trademarks; trade secrets;
licensing; e-Commerce; and cybercrimes.
The Intellectual Property Library
at Pierce Law
maintains an extensive collection covering United States, foreign, and
international intellectual property titles. Library resources
include all major formats. The collection spans three hundred
years of intellectual property scholarship, and includes scholarly,
practice, and news materials. It is a depository of publications
by the World Intellectual Property Organization. Pierce Law also
receives all significant publications of the Patent and Trademark and
Copyright Offices as a GPO Depository Library.
The virtual IP Library includes the award-winning IP Mall
website, which provides an invaluable
online resource for intellectual property research and scholarship, as
well as current news and legal developments in intellectual property
law. This site is visited over two million times a year.
Other academic resources at Pierce Law include several publications, such as IDEA: The Intellectual Property Law Review . Pierce Law is also home to the Kenneth J. Germeshausen Center. The
Germeshausen Center is a driving force in the study of international
and national intellectual property law and the transfer of technology.
It acts as a resource to business as well as scientific, legal and
governmental interests in patent, trademark, trade secret, licensing,
copyright, computer law, and related fields.
