Legal Research Guides by Course - Technology Innovation Law

Course Description

This course introduces students to the legal issues and frameworks that affect knowledge- and technology-intensive industries, both of which increasingly account for a substantial portion of regional, national, and global GDP. Topics covered include technology transfer and the business of technology innovation; licensing law; commercialization of university technologies; employer/employee interests in intellectual property; experimental uses of new technologies; as well as antitrust, bankruptcy, finance, and tax considerations related to the aforementioned activities. A technical background I not required to take the course. (3 credits)

Subject Covered Presently in Collection by:

Print Collection

KF195.S43 Technology and the Law
KF3133.B56 Biotechnology Invention (Patent Law)
KF3145 Licenses - Compulsory licenses (Patent Law)
T173.8 Technological Innovations
T174 Technological Forecasting
T174.3 Technology Transfer
T201-T212 Patents

Legal Research Databases

• Bloomberg BNA Online under Intellectual Property Law Resource Center - http://0-iplaw.bna.com.library.law.duq.edu/iprc/
• CCH Library - Intelliconnect under Intellectual Property
• Hein Online
• Westlaw and Lexis
• Bloomberg Law
• Legal Scholarship Network
• LoisLaw under Intellectual Property Law Library - http://www.loislaw.com/pns/index.htp?content=/pns/start.htp
• CALI under Intellectual Property - http://www.cali.org/category/cali-topics/2l-3l-upper-level-lesson-topics/intellectual-property
• CVN Law School under Intellectual Property (both audio and video cases available)
• Center for Technology Transfer and Enterprise Creation (CMU) - http://www.cmu.edu/corporate/tech-transfer.shtml
• About Technology Transfer (Association of University Technology Managers - AUTM) - http://www.autm.net/Tech_Transfer.htm
• Information Week: the Business Value of Technology - http://www.informationweek.com/
• Business Innovation (Bloomberg Businessweek) - http://bx.businessweek.com/business-innovation/
• Uber: When Innovation Outpaces the Law (article from Fast Company) - http://www.fastcompany.com/3001169/uber-when-innovation-outpaces-law
• Iowa Innovation, Business and Law Center published articles - http://www.uiowa.edu/~ibl/RecentlyPublishedScholarship.shtml
• Technology (SBIR/STTR) (Small Business Administration) - http://www.sba.gov/about-sba-services/7050
• The Licensing Law Blog - http://thelicensinglawblog.com/
• Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property (USDOJ) - http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/guidelines/0558.htm
• Intellectual Property Law and Employees (Bloomberg Businessweek) - http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/nov2010/ca2010112_650227.htm
• White Paper: Employment Agreements regarding Employee-Owned Intellectual Property, Conflicts of Interest, Trade Secrets, Non-disclosure, Non-competition - http://www.doaskdotell.com/content/empint.htm
• Academic Technology Transfer and Commercialization of University Research (Research.gov) - https://www.research.gov/research-portal/appmanager/base/desktop?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=research_node_display&_nodePath=/researchGov/Generic/PublicAffairs/CommercializationofResearchResults.html
• Accelerating Economic Development through University Technology Transfer - http://www.innovationassoc.com/docs/CT_NatRpt.ExSumm.pdf
• Duquesne University Technology Transfer - http://www.duq.edu/research/technology-transfer

DCLI Webpage Links

• Primary Legal Research: Case Law, Statutory Law, Administrative Law (contains quick links to our federal and state statutes, our federal and state administrative codes, and federal and state case law)
• Legal Research Guides: Intellectual Property

Law School Concentrations

• Intellectual Property

Created by Patricia Horvath
1/4/2013