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Paralegal Intellectual Property Law

X409 (1 semester unit in Law)

This is a course in the Paralegal Studies Program.

In this course, students explore trademark law, copyright law, and patent law as it relates to a paralegal's role within intellectual property representation. On successful completion, you gain quantifiable skills related to the paralegal profession in the area of intellectual property law in order to function under an attorney's supervision. Specifically, you will:

Learn terminology relevant to the area of intellectual property law and be able to identify the elements of trademark procedures, including infringement.
Learn to identify the elements of copyright procedures, including infringement.
Learn to identify the elements of patent application, ownership, transfer, and infringement.

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Thurs. July 3, Redwood City

Sections closed for enrollment

Thurs. May 15, Redwood City

DAVID R. OWENS, J.D., is a registered patent attorney and a partner of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. His practice includes all areas of intellectual property, including intellectual property litigation, patent and trademark prosecution, and the provision of strategic intellectual property counseling, intellectual property opinions, and the drafting and negotiation of intellectual property agreements.

Specifically, he has litigated patent infringement and trade secret cases in both federal and state courts in fields such as electronic devices, software processes, polymer coatings, and semiconductor processes. He conducts patent prosecution and provides strategic patent portfolio counseling to prominent companies in various technical fields such as petroleum processing, energy production and use, environmental technologies, semiconductor processing, microfluidic chip technologies, polymers and coatings, pharmaceuticals, and others. He has also prosecuted patent appeals and reissue and reexamination applications, including inter partes reexaminations. In addition to conducting trademark prosecution, he also provides strategic trademark filing advice. Owens provides intellectual property opinions addressing patentability, freedom to operate, infringement analysis, and trademark registrability. In addition to providing strategic counseling for the development and protection of intellectual property, Owens drafts and negotiates intellectual property agreements, including complex license agreements; joint development agreements; confidentiality agreements; employment agreements; Internet-based technology agreements; biotechnology agreements; and software agreements.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Owens was a partner at Pennie & Edmonds, a leading intellectual property boutique. Owens received his juris doctor from Santa Clara University. Before that, Owens worked as a research and development and field process engineer in the energy industry. He earned his master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Gettysburg College.

In addition to his admission to practice in California and in the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Central Districts of California, Owens is also admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Owens is a member of the American Bar Association, the Santa Clara County Bar Association and the American Intellectual Property Law Association. A coauthor of more than 25 publications, he is a regular guest lecturer on intellectual property law at UC Davis and at the Berkeley Haas School of Business.

NOTE: This class is closed. For information about related courses, contact your academic department.

$795 (EDP 313619)