Juris Doctor - Intellectual Property

Quinnipiac University

Join a diverse community of teachers, scholars and changemakers committed to meeting the many challenges of 21st-century law. Our core philosophy is educating the ''whole lawyer,'' developing skilled legal practitioners who retain their values and the highest professional ethics, as they serve their clients. Our JD program combines a breadth and depth of legal doctrine with a range of practical experiences. From corporate or public interest law to intellectual property or criminal defense litigation, you will graduate fully prepared to pursue a meaningful career in the law. Our externships and clinics offer many opportunities to hone your practical skills and apply what you learn in class to real-life settings. In the clinics, you will advise clients and might represent them before judges. You can participate in regional and national moot court, mock trial and dispute resolution competitions. You can attend symposia, workshops and other events that bring to campus renowned experts in their fields.Intellectual property lawyers play an essential role in protecting creators and inventors. From the mobile tech innovators in Silicon Valley to the authors who fuel the New York publishing industry, these individuals rely on the law to safeguard their creative genius. Modern digital and mobile technologies have added a new dimension of legal challenges to exciting areas such as entertainment and internet law. Our intellectual property concentration explores the key issues related to patents, trademarks, copyrighting and trade secrets. You’ll develop a firm grounding in a variety of fields that intellectual property law affects by taking courses on topics such as computer and internet law, patent litigation, sports law and entertainment law. You can participate in an externship in a law firm or corporate legal department to do the intellectual property work that lawyers do, protecting the creativity of artists, musicians and inventors. And in your courses or on a journal, you can write extensively on specific areas relating to your career interests.