Engineering Intellectual Property Law Graduate Certificate
An Engineering Intellectual Property (IP) Law Graduate Certificate offers a valuable combination of legal and technical knowledge, which is increasingly relevant in today’s innovation-driven economy. This specialized credential is beneficial for engineers, scientists, and legal professionals alike.
Program overview
The Engineering Intellectual Property Law graduate certificate program is designed to bridge the gap between the intricate domains of engineering and law, empowering engineering professionals with the legal expertise required to protect their inventions, designs, and innovations, as well as providing them with the needed foundation for IP protection related jobs. Key areas covered in the program include patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and contracting, providing understanding of the legal framework surrounding these rights and strategies to apply them to engineering fields.
The Engineering Intellectual Property Law Graduate Certificate program includes 12 graduate credit hours of coursework through a partnership between the Tickle College of Engineering and UT College of Law.
Why get a Certificate in Engineering Intellectual Property Law?
This graduate certificate program prepares students for careers at the intersection of engineering and law, developing their skills for IP protection. Completing the engineering IP law certificate will facilitate career growth for engineers and technical experts as they keep pace with evolving technology and legal requirements. Certificate holders will be empowered to protect, manage, and capitalize on intellectual property effectively, which is essential in engineering-driven industries.
What can you do with a Certificate in Engineering Intellectual Property Law?
Completing this program equips individuals with a unique set of skills that opens the door to pursuing careers as patent agents and examiners, IP specialists in engineering and technology firms, IP consultants or legal advisors, and more. An engineering IP law certificate prepares professionals for more specialized roles and may prepare a transition into patent law as an attorney or law specialist.
Featured Courses
Below are some of the courses that students in our program can choose to take. For a list of all courses, visit the graduate catalog.
LAW 506 Contracts: Legal Analysis and Drafting
Introduces non-JD students to the basic agreement process and legal protections afforded contract. Topics include issues relating to formation of contracts (offer, acceptance, consideration, and other bases for enforcing promises); the Statute of Frauds; formation defenses (unconscionability, mistake, misrepresentation, fraud, and duress); issues arising after contract formation, including interpretation; duty of good faith; conditions, impracticability and frustration of purpose; remedies; third party beneficiaries; assignment and delegation; and coverage of sales of goods under Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code with respect to remedies, anticipatory repudiation, impracticability, and good faith.
LAW 512 Intellectual Property (MLS)
Introduces non-JD students to federal and state law concerning intellectual property and related interests, including patents, trademarks, trade secrets, copyright, right of publicity, and unfair competition.
IE 539 Strategic Management in Technical Organizations
Strategic planning process and strategic management in practice; corporate vision and mission; product, market, organizational, and financial strategies; external factors; commercialization of new technologies; and competition and beyond.
IE 557 Technology Product Development and Entrepreneurship
Technology and innovation, technology transfer, patent protection, legal formation and intellectual property, knowledge management, generation, and transmission, launching a technology based business, sources of capital, small business growth and operation. Multidisciplinary teams will develop a business based on a technological product.
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