SemesterFall Semester, 2018
DepartmentGraduate Institute of Technology, Innovation & Intellectual Property Management, MA Program(IPM), First Year Graduate Institute of Technology, Innovation & Intellectual Property Management PhD Program, First Year Graduate Institute of Technology, Innovation & Intellectual Property Management, MA Program(IPM), Second Year Graduate Institute of Technology, Innovation & Intellectual Property Management PhD Program, Second Year
Course NameLegal Research Methodology for Intellectual Property Law
InstructorCHEN PING-HSUN
Credit3.0
Course TypeElective
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
Course Schedule

Week 1- Introduction

Week 2- U.S. Legal System 

Week 3- American Legal Research Methodology X Writing Skills

Week 4- In-Class Practice: Inducement X Divided Infringement X Research Planning (Secondary Sources/Case Law Search)

Week 5- In-Class Practice: Students’ Presentation of Secondary Sources

Week 6- Individual Meeting: Research Planning (Secondary Sources/Case Law Search) X Outline Developing

Week 7- Individual Meeting: Legal Writing Review

Week 8- Legal Writing X Off-Class Practice (In re Androgel Antitrust Litig. (No. II), No. 1:09-CV-955-TWT, 2018 WL 2984873 (N.D. Ga. June 14, 2018))

Week 9- Off-Class Practice: Students’ Presentation of Secondary Sources

Week 10- Off-Class Practice: Students’ Presentation of Scholarly Papers

Week 11- Off-Class Practice: Students’ Presentation of Circuit Court Decisions

Week 12- Individual Meeting: Outline/Arguments

Week 13- Individual Meeting: Outline/Arguments

Week 14- Individual Meeting: Draft 1

Week 15- Individual Meeting: Draft 2

Week 16- Holiday

Week 17- Individual Meeting: Draft 3

Week 18- Term Paper Due



Teaching Method: This course is a lecture-based course.

Learning Activity: Each student is required to conduct an in-depth research about an IP issue to gain more research experiences.

Homeworks: several.


Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant

N/A


Requirement/Grading

1. Homeworks: 20%.

2. Independent Research: 30%.

3. Term Paper: 50%.


Textbook & Reference

N/A


Urls about Course
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Attachment

Syllabus_TIIPM_Legal Research Methodology for Intellectual Property Law_2018 Fall.pdf