Intellectual Property and Information Governance LLM

The new LL.M in Intellectual Property and Information Governance at UConn School of Law will position students to meet the demands of a sophisticated knowledge economy.With the growth of human creativity and inventiveness, intellectual property law is emerging as one of the most dynamic fields of legal practice. To prepare the graduates for future work in this highly competitive field, UConn School of Law offers comprehensive training in intellectual property law spanning both new technologies and creative industries. The layered curriculum is designed to educate well-rounded lawyers who are versatile in all areas of intellectual property, not simply one of its regimes, and who can think strategically and flexibly about how to manage knowledge assets. Students begin with the introductory Intellectual Property class, which addresses conceptual and practice thinking in five major intellectual property areas, including trade secrets, trademarks, rights of publicity, copyrights and patents. Building on that foundation, students will be able to enroll in regime courses of copyright, trademark or patent law, the clinical coursework and numerous seminars.