Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property

WCL Students, Alumni and Faculty, please join PIJIP on October 1, 2020 at the Jaszi Lecture Series for a discussion with Suzan Shown Harjo on Intellectual Property and Native Justice. Registration is required. 

A new article by Christine Haight Farley, Faculty Director of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, has been published in the July–August 2020 issue of The Trademark Reporter.

American University Washington College of Law has been selected to co-host the 18th annual Works-in-Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium (WIPIP) along with Texas A&M University School of Lawand the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law.

A new paper by Victoria Phillips, Director of the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic, has been published by the journal IP Theory. The paper argues that the relatively new growth and success of intellectual property law clinics has led to " a rising tide in the availability of pro bono expert legal assistance for the creative community throughout the wider legal marketplace."

Director Sean Flynn presented preliminary results of PIJIP's work mapping copyright research rights to a recent WIPO seminar.  

Today, Suzan Shown Harjo issued the following statement. The WCL IP Clinic is proud to have represented Harjo in the controversy surrounding the Washington football team’s trademarks. This day is brought about by Native Peoples and our BIPOC partners moving the country toward racial and social justice.