Building An Innovation Environment

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. U.S. News recently ranked our Intellectual Property program #22 in the nation. 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-Center for Technology, 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 compaines 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 acheivements 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 Newsletter

IP Law Firm Listing

Events

Fall Forum: Intellectual Property Remedies: Oct. 2, 2009

This conference brought scholars and practitioners together to discuss the important field of remedies in intellectual property law.  Click here to view our photo gallery. 

2010 Distinguished IP Visitor: Feb. 15-18, 2010

This year our Distinguished Intellectual Property Visitor will be Professor Neil Netanel  who is a Professor of Law at the University of California Los Angeles School of Law.

Public Lecture: February 16, 2010
6pm, Lewis & Clark Law School, Room 7 

Robert Insley awarded first prize in the 2009 Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition

Pictured: Dean Klonoff, Professor Loren,Yixiong Zou, Professor Miller,     Robert Insley and Professor Gomez.

Robert Insley was awarded first prize in the 2009 Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition at the law school for his paper Computer Software Subclasses:  A Derivative Works Dilemma for the Open Source Movement. The second place winner was Yixiong Zou for his paper Behaviors-Based Abstraction, Filtration, and Comparisons Test: Refining the Non-literal Infringement Analysis for Computer Programs. This competition is sponsored by the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP) which provides funding each year for law schools to award top honors for the best student authored papers in the field of copyright law. Mr. Insley and Mr. Zou’s awards from the law school made their papers eligible for the national competition, the winner of which has yet to be announced.

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. 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.

Joseph Miller

Joe Miller writes and teaches in the patent law field. His current focus is on creativity thresholds in both patent law ("Remixing Obviousness," and "Level of Skill & Long-Felt Need: Notes on a Forgotten Future") and, more recently, in copyright law ("Hoisting Originality"). Other works of his have appeared in the Indiana Law Review, the American University Law Review, and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal.  He has also recently co-authored the casebook Intellectual Property: Cases and Materials with Professor Lydia Loren, published by Semaphore Press in digital format.  An outstanding classroom teacher, he consistently receives some of the highest student-evaluation scores on our campus. He is also an active participant in national dialogues about patent law, currently serving as one of only two academics on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Advisory Council.

Contact Us

Should you have any questions regarding our program please contact:

Shanelle Honda
Program Associate
503-768-6639
shonda@lclark.edu

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