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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
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On November 15, Professor Gibson was interviewed on NBC12 about the Federal Trade Commission’s inquiry into whether popular websites collect private information from children. On October 11, he moderated a panel on Technology and National Security, featuring former CIA director Michael Hayden, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, and former U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra.
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On November 13, Professor Cotropia presented Predictability as a Basis for Obviousness at the Fiftieth Annual Conference on Intellectual Property Law, hosted by the Center for American and International Law. Later that month he traveled to Cuba as part of an AIPLA delegation.
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In early November, Professor Osenga posted a podcast discussing Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, a Supreme Court case on the cross-border implications of copyright’s first sale doctrine. She also presented her paper Communicating Communications Policy at the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference.
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Professor Cotropia’s article Do Applicant Patent Citations Matter? Implications for the Presumption of Validity (co-authored with Mark Lemley and Bhaven Sampat) will appear in the peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary journal Research Policy. He also presented the article at the Seventh Annual Empirical Legal Scholars conference at Stanford Law Schoo
- Professor Gibson’s article Vertical Boilerplate will appear in the Washington & Lee Law Review.
- Professor Osenga published What Do America’s First Patents Have to Do With Today’s? in the Florida Law Review Online Forum, and her article Information May Want to Be Free, but Information Products Do Not will be republished in Critical Concepts in Intellectual Property Law.