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Intellectual Property Institute
University of Richmond School of Law
28 Westhampton Way
Richmond, Virginia 23173
Phone: (804) 287-6398
E-mail: ipi@richmond.edu
Intellectual Property Institute
The mission of the Intellectual Property Institute at the University of Richmond School of Law is to maintain a dynamic and respected center for the study of contemporary intellectual property issues, to increase curricular and other learning opportunities available to law students interested in intellectual property law, and to encourage widespread awareness and understanding of the role that intellectual property plays in fostering a creative and innovative culture.
Founded in 2004, the IP Institute has grown to include four full-time IP professors, a curriculum of more than a dozen courses, and a clinic focusing on the transactional side of IP law. The Institute also offers a certificate in IP, making Richmond Law one the few law schools that provide such an opportunity to its students.
IP Institute News
- Professor Cotropia has been named an inaugural Austin Owen Research Fellow at the law school, honoring him for his impressive body of intellectual property scholarship.
- In February, Professor Gibson was interviewed on NBC12 twice—once regarding an FTC report on children’s privacy protection and mobile apps, and a second time regarding fake online profiles on social media sites.
- Professor Osenga created a podcast as part of the Federalist Society’s SCOTUSCast series, discussing the Supreme Court’s decision in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, which addressed the cross-border implications of copyright’s first sale doctrine. Professor Gibson also posted an essay on the Kirtsaeng ruling as part of the Media Institute’s IP Issues series.
- Professor Cotropia’s article Do Applicant Patent Citations Matter? Implications for the Presumption of Validity (co-authored with Mark Lemley and Bhaven Sampat) was published in the peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary journal Research Policy. In addition, he and IPI Research Fellow Cecil Quillen have co-authored Patent Applications and the Performance of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which will appear in the Federal Circuit Bar Journal in September.
- Professor Gibson’s article Vertical Boilerplate was published in the Washington & Lee Law Review. A shorter version called Click To Agree—complete with great graphics—was featured in the Winter 2013 issue of Richmond Law magazine. The paper also won the Call for Papers for the 2013 SEALS Conference and will be honored at a special luncheon in August.
- Professor Osenga’s article The Internet is Not a Super Highway: Using Metaphors to Communicate Information and Communications Policy was published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Information Policy. She also published a response piece titled What Do America’s First Patents Have to Do with Today’s? in the Florida Law Review Online Forum.
- A Google Scholar Metrics study found that Professor Gibson’s 2007 article, Risk Aversion and Rights Accretion in Intellectual Property Law, is the twentieth most cited of all articles published in top law reviews from 2007 through 2011.