Wed., Sept. 16, 12:15PM – 1:15PM, WebEx – IPTLA Lunch & Learn with Jones Day Trademark Lawyers on Global Brand Management

Please join the IPTLA for a WebEx presentation from Jones Day partner and Akron Law alumna, Angela Gott, and Jones Day associate and Cleveland State alumna, Kerry Barrett, on global brand management. Angela and Kerry will discuss the life of a trademark. They will go over the process of helping a client select a protectable mark, acquire trademark registration globally, and then how to actively manage that mark and its protection around the world. This is an excellent event for those interested in practicing intellectual property law, but don’t have an interest in patents. Angela and Kerry will reserve plenty of time for fielding questions on their law practices, brand management, and working in a big law firm. Join us at the following WebEx:

https://uakron.webex.com/uakron/k2/j.php?MTID=t125861ada3236d911ee9caec104c085b

Session number: 120 624 5538 
Session password: IPLunch



Wed., August 26, 12:15PM – 1:15PM, WebEx – IPTLA General Body Meeting & 1L Welcome

Please join this year’s IPTLA board for a general body meeting to discuss our calendar of events for the year, meet your class representatives, and welcome the new 1Ls to the group. The meeting will provide an opportunity to meet this year’s board and faculty advisors. Dean Alisa Benedict O’Brien and Judge Ryan Holte will provide advice for incoming 1Ls on preparing for on-campus interviews next year. And we will take time to generally get to know one another. Please join us at the following WebEx:

https://uakron.webex.com/uakron/k2/j.php?MTID=te6b4c9c4066586f6916464d9ae7d463f

Session number: 120 271 8151 
Session password: IPWelc 

Link: https://bit.ly/2DCSqJy

CSU Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Partnership

Dear Akron Law students,

We are very pleased to announce that The University of Akron School of Law and CSU Cleveland-Marshall College of Law have agreed to cross-register eight courses for the Fall 2020 semester. This cross-registration will afford our respective students the opportunity to enrich their academic experience by having the option to take a course offered by one of the law schools and not offered by the other. The two schools will use existing University cross-registration agreements to offer a limited number of courses at each school to all students.

There are four additional courses available to you this Fall through this new collaboration. The cross-registration courses are listed below:

AKRON LAW CSU CLEVELAND-MARSHALL
International Intellectual Property Advocacy Practicum (3 cr.) HIPAA & Privacy (3 cr.)
Juvenile Law (3 cr.) Healthcare Compliance I (3 cr.)
Second Amendment (2 cr.) White Collar Crime (3 cr.)
Trademark Clinic (2 cr.) Corporate Compliance (3 cr.)

All of these courses will be offered remotely this semester.

Students will register with their home institutions but will take the courses offered at the designated institution. Tuition and fees will be paid to the home institution. Any student enrolling in one of these courses at the school will not pay additional tuition or fees at the other school.

Any Akron Law student interested in taking one of the four courses listed above should complete the attached form and submit it to Dean Janoski-Haehlen at ejanoskihaehlen@uakron.edu, copying Director Misty Franklin at misty@uakron.edu, by August 21. Seats in these courses are limited, and students will be admitted on a first-come, first-served basis.

At a time when innovative partnerships have never been more important, we see this as an opportunity to leverage the curricular strengths of both law schools and to expand curricular opportunities for our law students.

With all best wishes for the start of the fall semester,

CJP