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Law   Franklin Pierce School of Law :: General Practice (LAW)

LGP 963 (01) - Law and Mental Health

Credits: 2.0
Term: Spring 2017 - Law (01/09/2017 - 01/13/2017)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   15  
CRN: 57208
This two-credit course, meeting on selected Mondays (and one Saturday), equips students to manage all phases of legal proceedings in which mental health evidence and testimony are utilized. Students will review theories of law and mental health; assessment, treatment, credentialing, ethics, and practice standards; competency, sanity, and commitment proceedings; mental injury, antidiscrimination, and educational entitlements; delinquency, abuse/neglect, and child custody determinations; and practical aspects of forensic consultation, expert witness retention, and the lawyer?s own mental health. Open to all except 1Ls. Grading Information: Final examination= 50%; Class Preparation And Participation= 20%; and Brief Research Paper= 30%.
Instructors: STAFF
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
1/30/2017 2/13/2017 M 5:00pm - 8:15pm UNHL 102
Law   Franklin Pierce School of Law :: General Practice (LAW)

LGP 969 (01) - Article II Sales

Credits: 2.0
Term: Spring 2017 - Law (01/17/2017 - 04/28/2017)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   80  
CRN: 54607
The Sales course is a continuation of contract doctrine from your first semester Contract Law course. While Contract Law focused on the common law's approach to contracts, Sales will focus on statutory approaches. U.C.C. Article 2 (sale of goods) will be the main focus of the course, but we will also explore other code approaches to sales. We will explore international sales and the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (the CISG). We will also look at electronic commerce through the Uniform Electronics Transactions Act (UETA) and Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (E-Sign). Eligibility: Required JD course. Course format: lecture. This course is recommended for taking the bar exam. Grading: final exam, 100%. This course cannot be taken for an S/U grade.
Instructors: STAFF
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
1/17/2017 4/28/2017 R 9:00am - 11:00am UNHL 229
Law   Franklin Pierce School of Law :: General Practice (LAW)

LGP 970 (01) - Preliminary Bar Exam

Credits: 0.0
Term: Spring 2017 - Law (01/17/2017 - 04/28/2017)
Grade Mode: Graduate Credit/Fail grading
Class Size:   100  
CRN: 54890
The preliminary bar exam is a requirement for all 1L students, as set forth in the Student Handbook p.53 The prelim will assess students' substantive knowledge of Torts, Contracts, Property, and CIvil Procedure, as well as the essential skills necessary for success on the bar exam. Students will not receive course credit for the prelim, and it will not be used to calculate GPA or class rank.
Instructors: STAFF
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
1/17/2017 4/28/2017 Hours Arranged TBA
Law   Franklin Pierce School of Law :: Intellectual Property (LAW)

LIP 802 (01) - Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer and Global Development

IP, Tech Transfer&Global Devlp

Credits: 2.0
Term: Spring 2017 - Law (01/17/2017 - 04/28/2017)
Grade Mode: Graduate Credit/Fail grading
Class Size:   25  
CRN: 54732
With an open seminar format for discussion and exploration of emerging topics in the field of IP and global development, this course is open to all students, does not have a formal prerequisite, but students are expected to understand the fundamental principles of IP covered and conduct rigorous interdisciplinary research: as such, this course will contribute to the students' overall information literacy. Students are therefore expected to be diligent, professional, independent and responsible for their project deliverables. Topics to be covered in this course include, butr are not necessarily limited to, the WIPO Development Agenda, WTO TRIPs, International Technology Transfer and Access to medicines. Assigned readings will not e reviewed in class via recitation, but rather as a springboard for informed discussion and formulation of concepts which add to the knowledge base in this complex and rapidly evolving field of study. Specific, measurable, student learning outcomes include greater knowledge of the role of IP in economic development, skills in performing complex interdisciplinary research and values related to formulating policy and strategic options which foster equitable and sustainable application of IP to the development of emerging economies. Students will be graded on an S/U/O basis. Evaluation will be based on equal weighting of 1) Attendance and thoughtful participation, 2) Professional presentation of a project paper to the class, 3) Final project paper of approximately 25 pages. Project subjects will be determined during the initial several weeks of the course, in consultation with the professor. Class size: 12 students.
Instructors: STAFF
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
1/17/2017 4/28/2017 F 10:30am - 12:30pm UNHL 102
Law   Franklin Pierce School of Law :: Intellectual Property (LAW)

LIP 895 (01) - American Legal Process and Analysis II

Amer Legal Proc & Analysis II

Credits: 2.0
Term: Spring 2017 - Law (01/17/2017 - 04/28/2017)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   15  
CRN: 54743
This course builds upon the work begun in American Legal Process and Analysis I. Students continue to develop their analytical skills regarding American common law and statutory legal reasoning and are introduced to persuasive writing. THrough reading court documents, visiting court, lecture, group work, and assignments, students gain a working knowledge of client advocacy in the U.S. system. Students also gain some experience with Alternative Dispute Resolution teachinques by participating in a simulated negotiation at the end of the course. The course is required for all students who do not hold a U.S. JD degree. The course is tailored for students whose first language is not American English. Prereq: American Legal Process and Analysis I.
Instructors: STAFF
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
1/17/2017 4/28/2017 M 3:00pm - 5:00pm UNHL 201
Law   Franklin Pierce School of Law :: Intellectual Property (LAW)

LIP 913 (1BB) - International and Comparative Intellectual Property

Intl & Comparative IP

Credits: 3.0
Term: Spring 2017 - Law (01/17/2017 - 04/28/2017)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   15  
CRN: 54712
This graduate course examines select issues of intellectual property law in both an international and comparative context. The course introduces the basic contours of international principles, treaties and institutions regarding IP, including significant substantive and procedural differences between the United States and other countries (with a focus on the U.S., Europe, and Asia). The course explores why and how international and regional IP regimes have been created, and how they have been implemented, interpreted, and enforced. Students will become familiar with some of the most significant of these regimes in each area of IP. While the course assumes a general background in IP law, in-depth knowledge of IP law in the U.S. or in any other country is not required. Grading will be determined by participation in on-line discussion fora (which will require answering and discussing weekly questions), and by a final exam/paper.
Attributes: Online (no campus visits), EUNH
Instructors: STAFF
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
1/17/2017 4/28/2017 Hours Arranged TBA
Law   Franklin Pierce School of Law :: Intellectual Property (LAW)

LIP 915 (01) - Entertainment Law

Credits: 2.0
Term: Spring 2017 - Law (01/17/2017 - 04/28/2017)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   25  
CRN: 54649
This course will address the legal and transactional issues involved with live performance, recording agreements, motion picture licensing, finance, and development, virtual entertainment of computer gaming and virtual worlds, and new media. Students will immerse themselves in the deal-making aspects of practice in the entertainment industry and the relationships between the media producers, distributors and artists in these industries. Eligibility: Open to all students. Course format: lecture. Grading: other (see syllabus), 100%. This course may be taken for an S/U grade.
Instructors: STAFF
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
1/17/2017 4/28/2017 M 3:00pm - 5:00pm UNHL 202
Law   Franklin Pierce School of Law :: Intellectual Property (LAW)

LIP 917 (01) - Federal Trademark and Copyright Registration Practice

Fed Trademrk&Copyrt Reg Pract

Credits: 2.0
Term: Spring 2017 - Law (01/17/2017 - 04/28/2017)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   18  
CRN: 54652
This course will educate students in federal TM registration, from pre-application trademark searching through post-registration maintenance and monitoring. Students will become familiar with USPTO practice and procedures, including information literacy of PTO database searching, e-filing at the PTO (one of the assignments will be to prepare an electronic trademark application) and paper filing (another assignment is to draft a paper filing response to an office action). USPTO guidelines and governing principles for handling various rejections will be addressed. The course will also cover ex parte appeals to the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. By applying the students' trademark law knowledge to USPTO practices, students will be expected to develop strategies for hypothetical trademark clients to best meet trademark registration objectives in order to prepare them to counsel clients on mark development, the benefits of federal registration, cost concerns, and other trademark matters. The copyright registration portion of the course will cover statutes, rules, and practice impacting copyright registration. For example, the course will address the benefits of copyright registration (including statutory damages, presumption of validity, and other advantages), categorization of works under the Copyright regulations (for proper form selection), putting the work for hire doctrine into application in the process, the single work rule, copyright notice, handling multiple authors for different contributions to a work, determining the "publication date," and the difference between an "author" and a "claimant." The course additionally addresses the reason and process for the recordation of instruments at the USPTO and the Copyright Office. Eligibility: Open to all except 1Ls. Prerequisites: Concurrent or prior completion of Fundamentals of Intellectual Property OR Trademarks & Deceptive Practices; OR, prior trademark experience (see Prof. Lembree with questions). Corequisites: Concurrent or prior completion of Fundamentals of Intellectual Property OR Trademarks & Deceptive Practices; OR, prior trademark experience (see Prof. Lembree with questions). Course enrollment is limited to 25 students. Course format: problem-based. Grading: final exam, 25%; class prep. and participation, 5%; other (see syllabus), 70%. This course may be taken for an S/U grade.
Instructors: STAFF
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
1/17/2017 4/28/2017 W 3:00pm - 5:00pm UNHL 202
Law   Franklin Pierce School of Law :: Intellectual Property (LAW)

LIP 928 (01) - Intellectual Property Management

Intellectual Property Mgmt

Credits: 2.0
Term: Spring 2017 - Law (01/17/2017 - 04/28/2017)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   35  
CRN: 54657
Intellectual Property (IP) Management is intended for third year law students as a "capstone" course building on IP courses taken in the second and third years of law school. It is a practical, hands-on course designed to bridge academia and real-life private or corporate practice and is meant to provide the IP professional with a solid foundation in proactive counseling in the area of intellectual property. Exemplary topics include invention harvesting or extracting; invention records and disclosures; inventorship and ownership issues; laboratory notebook practice; patent searching; criteria and procedures for determining type of IP protection, particularly whether to file for patent protection or maintain as trade secret; trade secret policies and protection; IP education; IP audits and due diligence investigations; outside submissions; trademark practice (searching and clearance); international filing considerations, agreement practice, and other aspects of corporate IP management including understanding, developing, executing and/or managing IP strategies, IP committees, and IP budgets consistent with overall business objectives. Eligibility: Open to all except 1Ls. Course format: lecture. Grading: other (see syllabus), 100%. This course may be taken for an S/U grade.
Instructors: STAFF
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
1/17/2017 4/28/2017 F 8:20am - 10:20am UNHL 201
Law   Franklin Pierce School of Law :: Intellectual Property (LAW)

LIP 928 (1BB) - Intellectual Property Management

Intellectual Property Mgmt

Credits: 2.0
Term: Spring 2017 - Law (01/17/2017 - 04/28/2017)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
Class Size:   15  
CRN: 57196
Intellectual Property (IP) Management is intended for third year law students as a "capstone" course building on IP courses taken in the second and third years of law school. It is a practical, hands-on course designed to bridge academia and real-life private or corporate practice and is meant to provide the IP professional with a solid foundation in proactive counseling in the area of intellectual property. Exemplary topics include invention harvesting or extracting; invention records and disclosures; inventorship and ownership issues; laboratory notebook practice; patent searching; criteria and procedures for determining type of IP protection, particularly whether to file for patent protection or maintain as trade secret; trade secret policies and protection; IP education; IP audits and due diligence investigations; outside submissions; trademark practice (searching and clearance); international filing considerations, agreement practice, and other aspects of corporate IP management including understanding, developing, executing and/or managing IP strategies, IP committees, and IP budgets consistent with overall business objectives. Eligibility: Open to all except 1Ls. Course format: lecture. Grading: other (see syllabus), 100%. This course may be taken for an S/U grade.
Attributes: Online (no campus visits), EUNH
Instructors: STAFF
Start Date End Date Days Time Location
1/17/2017 4/28/2017 Hours Arranged TBA