Category Archives: Clinic News

11 Reasons to Ignore the 10-Year-Old Annenberg Survey About the Washington Football Team’s Offensive Name

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Brandon Butler

Prepared by Natasha Dhillon, Justin Hemmings, Maggie Scales, and William Stanley, Student Attorneys Yesterday afternoon, Washington College of Law’s Sports & Entertainment Law Society held its first annual Sports Law Symposium featuring a panel discussion of the debate around whether … Continue reading →

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Professor Peter Jaszi to Testify Before House Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Brandon Butler

Update: Video of the hearing is available here. [Cross-posted from PIJIP.] Professor Peter Jaszi, one of the founders of the Glushko-Samuelson IP Clinic, will testify this afternoon before a House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, … Continue reading →

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Power to the People! Five Reasons Fair Use Best Practices are Changing the World

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Brandon Butler

Power to the People! Five Reasons Fair Use Best Practices are Changing the World As part of #CopyrightWeek, a guest blog post by professor Peter Jaszi, practitioner-in-residence Brandon Butler, and AU professor Patricia Aufderheide on the power of fair use … Continue reading →

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Clinic Alum Liz Jackson

Posted on January 14, 2014 by Brandon Butler

Clinic Alum and trademark examiner Liz Jackson braved record cold temperatures to head to the Madison Building at the USPTO in Alexandria, VA. That’s dedication!

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Clinic Students File Brief for Former Copyright Register in Supreme Court Raging Bull Case

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Brandon Butler

On Thursday, September 21, 2013, students at the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic of the Washington College of Law filed an amicus brief in the pending Supreme Court case Petrella v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., involving the 1980 Martin Scorsese film Raging Bull. … Continue reading →

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Clinic Students Prepare Comments on Statutory Damages for USPTO Inquiry

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Brandon Butler

Attorneys, professors, and law students have all engaged in debate over patent trolls in recent years, but copyright has its own trolls whose legal threats and lawsuits may be even more dubious. Student attorneys with the Glushko–Samuelson Intellectual Property Clinic … Continue reading →

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This Week In Clinic: IP Clinic Student Attorney Will Stanley

Posted on October 30, 2013 by Brandon Butler

Will describes his work with a client who had questions about how patents might affect his business.

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2nd Annual Peter Jaszi Distinguished Lecture on Intellectual Property

Posted on October 29, 2013 by AUWCL

2nd Annual Peter Jaszi Distinguished Lecture on Intellectual Property To register, click here. November 7, 2013 Directions and Logistics Room 603 5:30 p.m. reception 6:15 p.m. lecture introduction 6:30 p.m. lecture About the Peter Jaszi Lecture Distinguished Lecture on Intellectual Property PIJIP’s Distinguished Lecture on … Continue reading →

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Alumni Profile: Ali Sternburg ’12

Posted on October 29, 2013 by AUWCL

Alumna Ali Sternburg graduated from AUWCL in 2012 and now works as Public Policy and Regulatory Counsel for theComputer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA). At CCIA, her job is dictated by Congress’s docket and current events. She works primarily on intellectual … Continue reading →

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IP Clinic Joins App Developers Alliance to Fight Patent Trolls

Posted on October 16, 2013 by AUWCL

The IP Clinic will join forces with other law school IP clinics to fight abusive patent trolls.  The new network is a great example of the increasing engagement of law school  IP and technology clinics and their innovative collaboration to … Continue reading →

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