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, CIS: Corporate Counsel, CIS: Business Advising - 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

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

Events

Intellectual Property in the Trees

Lewis & Clark Law School is proud to host a scholarly workshop series that aims to bring a mix of senior scholars and rising stars to our campus for enriching, challenging conversations with our faculty and our students.

Ted Sichelman
 Associate Professor - University of San Diego School of Law
Date:  Monday, January 30, 2012

 

Dan L. Burk
Chancellor’s Professor of Law - UC Irvine School of Law
Date:  Thursday, February 23, 2012

Stacey L. Dogan
Professor of Law - Boston University School of Law
Date:  Friday, March 16, 2012

 

Zahr Said
Associate Professor - Univ. of Washington School of Law
Date:  Wednesday, April 4, 2012

 

The Intellectual Property in the Trees workshop series is made possible through the generous support of Kay Kitagawa and Andy Johnson-Laird.

Faculty

We have two 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. His article on copyright injunctions, which includes an Online Companion, was recently published in the Southern California Law Review. His most recent article examines the viability of granting continuing royalties in lieu of final injunctions in intellectual-property cases and will be published in volume 78 of the Fordham Law Review.

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:

Stacie Pacheco
Program Coordinator
503-768-6639
spacheco@lclark.edu

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