The Intellectual Property (IP) Law Program at Lewis & Clark invites you to explore the world of possibilities in the thriving field of Intellectual Property Law and to engage the powerful resources available to members of our community.

Take part in Lewis & Clark’s vibrant Intellectual Property Law program. Join us as we and our IP Law alumni build tomorrow’s innovation environment.

Intellectual Property Program

Lewis & Clark’s Intellectual Property program is integrated with and complements our outstanding Business Law Program. The synergy between the two programs affords Lewis & Clark students a learning environment that strengthens their appreciation of intellectual property law in an important context in our economy.

Our Small Business Legal Clinic, Internship Seminar: In House Counsel, and Internship Seminar: Entrepreneurship and Law all offer students real-life experiences working with clients on all manner of IP issues including trademark, copyright and licensing with small companies, major companies, and emerging high-technology ventures.

Curriculum

Lewis & Clark’s curriculum includes a wide array of classes in the field of intellectual property law. In addition to the five fundamental annual courses we offer numerous advanced courses.

IP Certificate

Our rich IP curriculum permits us to offer a certificate in Intellectual Property for our graduating students.

Certificates are intended to recognize students for their achievements and to inform prospective employers that these students have completed a rigorous course of study in the subject area.

Certificate Requirements

Events

Intellectual Property in the Trees

Lewis and Clark Law School is proud to host our 4th annual Intellectual Property in the Trees workshop series. Please check back for dates for the upcoming school year.

 

Students

Our students are active participants in the shape of our program. Through the student group, IPSO, the law school hosts a brown bag lecture series, an annual IPA event (IPA stands for both Intellectual Property Attorney and India Pale Ale - a favorite microbrew in the Northwest), and countless gatherings throughout the year.

Oregon IP Network

IP Law Firm Listing

Faculty

We have three full-time tenured or tenure-track professors who devote both their teaching and their scholarship to intellectual property law. Lewis & Clark has four additional faculty members who teach related courses, such as Entertainment Law, while focusing their scholarship on other areas of the law.

We also have a wide array of talented and experienced adjunct professors that help us round out our curricular offerings.

Tomas Gomez-Arostegui

Tomas Gomez-Arostegui teaches international intellectual property, trademarks, and copyright history. Prior to joining the faculty at Lewis & Clark in 2006, he was a Visiting Researcher and Lecturer at the Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law at the University of Oslo, where he still holds an appointment as Supervisor of Examiners. Tomas’s scholarship interests lie primarily in the history of intellectual property and in the remedies awarded in intellectual property cases. 

Anna Laakmann

Anna Laakmann’s teaching and scholarly interests are in the areas of intellectual property, law and technology, and health policy. Her research focuses on exploring the ways in which the patent, regulatory, and tort systems interact to impact scientific research, health care markets, the practice of medicine, and population health. Prior to joining Lewis & Clark, Anna was a Visiting Assistant Professor and Shughart Scholar at Penn State Dickinson School of Law. Before her transition to academia, Anna was manager of technology development and commercialization at a medical research institute outside Philadelphia, where she evaluated the patentability and commercial potential of scientific discoveries, managed patent prosecution, and negotiated license agreements with biopharmaceutical companies. She also served as a consultant for BioStrategy Partners, a nonprofit organization that provides technology and business development services to start-up life sciences companies in the Greater Philadelphia region.  She is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Lydia Loren

Lydia Loren writes and teaches in the copyright law field. She has also recently co-authored the casebook Intellectual Property: Cases and Materials with Professor Joe Miller, published by Semaphore Press in digital format. Her extremely popular casebook Copyright in a Global Information Economy (co-authored with Julie Cohen, Maureen O’Rourke, and Ruth Okediji) is used in many schools across the country. Her recent scholarship has focused on using motivation for creation to shape the scope of copyright protection (Louisiana Law Review), understanding the interplay between Creative Commons licenses and copyright law (George Mason Law Review), and music copyrights (Case Western Reserve Law Review). Loren consistently receives high student-evaluation scores for her courses in the intellectual property field, challenging students to understand the law with innovative classroom exercises and writing projects. Active in several Oregon state bar groups, Loren has also taught intellectual property law in China and in Italy for summer study abroad programs. During the 2006-2007 academic year she served as the Interim Dean of Lewis & Clark Law School while the school engaged in a national search for its next dean.

 

Contact Us

Should you have any questions regarding our program please contact:

Kari Baxter                                                                                              Program Coordinator
503-768-6639
baxterk@lclark.edu

You should also feel free to contact any of the faculty members listed here.