• October 7, 2019
    Article by Balganesh challenges critics of copyright claims intended to censor content
    “Censorial copyright claims” are used where the creators of personal and often unpublished works use copyright law to sue those who publish and distribute those materials without permission.
  • Penn Law Online
    April 29, 2019
    Penn Law launches MOOCs on intellectual property law and regulatory compliance
    Through online education, Penn Law will continue to expand its educational expertise to new audiences who seek to gain a better understanding of the law, and the most recent offerings represent the Law School’s biggest commitment yet to the online space.
  • Exterior of Golkin Hall facing Courtyard (with Gittis Hall reflected in windows.)
    December 14, 2018
    Product by former client of Detkin IP & Technology Legal Clinic named among Best Inventions of the Year by Time magazine
    In 2015 students and faculty in DIPTC worked with Lia Diagnostics, Inc., to draft their first nonprovisional patent for Lia’s innovative new paper pregnancy test
  • “Starting this September, our students will be able to advocate directly for trademark clients ...
    June 25, 2018
    Detkin IP and Technology Legal Clinic joins USPTO’s Certification Program to officially represent trademark clients before Examiners
    Penn Law’s Detkin Intellectual Property and Technology Legal Clinic has newly been invited to join the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Law School Clinic Certification Program, as part of the trademark portion of the program.
  • October 16, 2017
    Research by Professor Balganesh proposes adding causation to copyright
    In an article in the Columbia Law Review, Balganesh argues that copyright law does, in fact, have an important causal dimension, and he proposes the development of a requirement called “copyrightable causation” as a prerequisite to copyright protection.
  • Professors Cynthia Dahl and R. Polk Wagner discussed the upcoming patent cases in this Supreme Co...
    October 6, 2017
    Panel examines patent law cases in new Supreme Court term
    On October 4, a panel of professors at Penn Law discussed six possible patent law cases for the U.S. Supreme Court’s upcoming term.
  • Kevin Lawler L'19 is using his administrative law and IP skills in his internship at NASA headqua...
    July 13, 2017
    Pathways to the Profession: Kevin Lawler L’19
    This summer, Kevin Lawler L’19 is interning for the Commercial and Intellectual Property Legal Group at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C.
  • Matt Lembo L'17 and Stephen DeSalvo L'17 were named best oralist, and the team won best appellant...
    May 3, 2017
    Penn Law team takes top awards at IP moot court
    Penn Law students Stephen DeSalvo L’17 and Matt Lembo L’17 won the national championship of the 44th annual American Intellectual Property Law Association Giles S. Rich Moot Court.
  • Penn Law professor and patent law expert R. Polk Wagner is teaching a free online course called
    January 28, 2016
    Penn Law brings IP law expertise to the world with free online course
    The University of Pennsylvania and edX are offering a free online course on intellectual property law and policy taught by IP and patent law expert R. Polk Wagner.
  • Penn Law student Adam Alperowicz L’17 won this year's IP LawMeet National Championship along wi...
    November 16, 2015
    Penn Law team wins IP LawMeet National Championship
    Penn Law students Adam Alperowicz L’17 and Nayha Zubair L’16 were named champions of the fifth annual Intellectual Property LawMeet, along with a team from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law.
  • IP LawMeet winner Nayha Zubair L'16 spent the summer after her 1L year as an intern at Twitter.
    November 3, 2015
    Penn Law team wins IP LawMeet regionals
    Students from Penn Law won the Midwest Regionals of the 2015 Intellectual Property LawMeet, held at Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
  • To help lawyers and engineers learn to communicate effectively, Prof. Cynthia Dahl pairs them up ...
    September 14, 2015
    New article from IP Clinic director explains how to bridge the communication divide between law and tech
    A new article by the Detkin Clinic’s Cynthia Dahl describes how to teach students to communicate across fields by pairing engineers with lawyers in a patent drafting simulation.
  • Rui Li L'17 is exploring intellectual property law as a legal intern at Baker Botts LLP in Palo A...
    August 3, 2015
    Pathways to the Profession: Rui Li L’17
    In the latest summer dispatch, Rui Li L’17 talks about her IP work in Silicon Valley.
  • Feini (Sylvia) Qu GR’17, V’19 and her husband, Peter Gebhard GEN’16, inventors of a proprie...
    July 13, 2015
    New invention spurs students in Detkin IP/Tech Clinic to master intricacies of patent law
    Budding companies benefit from the free legal service offered through the Detkin Clinic, which Cynthia Dahl and her colleagues at Penn Law describe as “a teaching law firm.”
  • Adam Alperowicz L'17 is currently putting his IP coursework to good use as a legal intern at the ...
    July 6, 2015
    Pathways to the Profession: Adam Alperowicz L’17
    Adam Alperowicz L’17 is spending his summer working on corporate, IP, and litigation issues for Spotify in New York.
  • Brian Springer L’15 and Greg Manas L’15 won the AIPLA National Patent Law Moot Court competit...
    May 11, 2015
    Penn Law students win national championship for patent law moot court
    Penn Law students Greg Manas L’15 and Brian Springer L’15 won the national finals of the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s Giles Sutherland Rich National Patent Law Moot Court competition.