LAW3675 INNOVATION LAW AND POLICY
(FORMERLY INNOVATION AND THE LAW: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION)
4 Advanced Liberal Arts Credits
Innovation is often praised as a key to entrepreneurship and economic growth. For this reason, intellectual property law seeks to stimulate innovation beyond competitive free market levels through through patents, designs, copyrights, trade secrets and trademarks. At the same time, other areas of law such as safety, advertising, consumer protection and antitrust law may be called upon to regulate possible negative effects from innovation. This course explores how these areas of law apply to innovation to ask the ultimate question, how should the legal system best encourage or regulate innovation, if at all?
Prerequisites: LAW1000
LAW3675: Innovation Law and Policy
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