Detkin Intellectual Property and Technology Legal Clinic

Penn Law’s newest clinic, the Detkin Intellectual Property and Technology Legal Clinic, will be designed to set a new standard for higher legal education in IP and technology by providing hands-on, practical experience along the technological, legal, and business pathways that comprise the commercialization of innovation. Working closely with Penn’s Center for Technology Transfer (CTT), law students will be able to gain tremendous insights and professional experience in the real world of IP and technology law and commercialization.

CTT is dedicated to moving the world-class research and technologies developed at Penn to the marketplace where they may be developed for the public good. The clinic will involve extensive cross-disciplinary collaboration between Penn Law and Penn’s Schools of Engineering, Medicine, Business (Wharton), Arts and Sciences, and other Penn departments and programs involved in the patenting and licensing processes, as well as related research.

Real-world cases on which students will likely work include invention and market evaluation, patent prosecution and patent application development, strategic decision-making related to patents and licensing, and negotiation of licensing or other commercialization deals.

In addition, the clinic will be closely integrated with Penn Law’s curriculum in law and technology and build upon the strengths of its research programs, such as Penn Law’s Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition. Projects from the Detkin Clinic will be used as case studies in non-clinical courses, and students will be expected to have completed certain prerequisite Law School courses, such as Introduction to Intellectual Property and Patent Law, prior to enrolling in the clinic.

The Detkin Clinic was made possible by a generous gift from Peter Detkin EE’82, L’85, the noted IP entrepreneur and Founder and Vice Chairman of Intellectual Ventures, an invention investment firm, who currently serves on the Board of Overseers for Penn’s School of Engineeringand Applied Science. Read more.

More information on this new Clinic will be posted as it becomes available.