Unfair Competition & Related Topics in Intellectual Property
Course Information
- Course Number
- L6162
- Curriculum Level
- Upperclass
- Areas of Study
- Administrative Law and Public Policy, Commercial Law and Transactions, Intellectual Property and Technology
- Type
- Lecture
Section 001 Information
Instructor
Clarisa Long
Max Mendel Shaye Professor of Intellectual Property Law
Section Description
This is a course on the law of trademarks, trade secrets, and other areas of unfair competition law in the United States. At a conceptual level, the course examines how legal rules affect the production and dissemination of valuable commercial information in competitive market contexts. Our main inquiry will be how rights in information are structured so as to sustain a competitive process that is fair, honest, and efficient while providing incentives for the creation of valuable information and consumer products. We will focus not only on the principal rules that make up trademark law and other branches of unfair competition law, but also on the theories and policies underlying these rules. The trademark portion of the course will focus on the federal Lanham Act, particularly classic trademark law focusing on consumer confusion as well as the law of trademark dilution.
Registration is limited to upperclass law school students at Columbia Law School only.
- School Year & Semester
- Fall 2022
- Location
- JGH 107
- Schedule
-
Class meets on
- Monday
- Wednesday
- Points
- 4
- Method of Evaluation
- Exam
- J.D Writing Credit?
- No
Learning Outcomes
- Primary
-
- At the end of the course, students will have acquired understanding of and/or facility in a specific body of law, including major policy concerns
- At the end of the course, students will have acquired understanding of and/or facility in doctrinal analysis, including close reading of cases and precedents, and application to facts
- At the end of the course, students will have acquired understanding of and/or facility in statutory and regulatory analysis, including close reading of statutes and regulations, and application to facts
Course Limitations
- Instructor Pre-requisites
- None
- Instructor Co-Requisites
- None
- Requires Permission
- No
- Recommended Courses
- None
- Other Limitations
- This course is closed to students who have taken Trademarks (LAW -L6484 -001). Registration is limited to upperclass law school students at Columbia Law School only. No exceptions. Enrollment is capped at 60 students.