Intellectual Property Law: Advanced - Fall 2016

Professor William Fisher

This course is intended for students who are already familiar with the main contours of intellectual-property law and would like to explore the subject further. We will examine in depth a series of topics that, in recent years, have proven especially controversial or troublesome: traditional knowledge; the right of publicity; intellectual-property protection for fashion; fair use; possible solutions to the crisis in the entertainment industry; patent pools and standard-setting organizations; reverse-payment settlement agreements; the relationship between copyright and freedom of speech; how legal reform might help address the health crisis in the developing world; exhaustion; extralegal IP norms; IP litigation; and the relationship between IP and business strategy.

For more information about this course, see the Harvard Law School Course Catalog.