Juelsgaard Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic
The Juelsgaard Clinic is pleased to announce the launch of the GitHub Developer Rights Fellowship and the search for our new GitHub Developer Rights Fellow
In the Juelsgaard Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic, students engage in hands-on representation of clients in cutting-edge matters involving IP (copyright and the DMCA, patent, and trademark) and other laws and technology policy advocacy that affect innovation, including online speech and content moderation, artificial intelligence, tech and racial justice, net neutrality, antitrust, pharmaceutical regulation, privacy, cybersecurity, and more.
Juelsgaard Clinic students draft amicus briefs for the Supreme Court or federal appellate and district courts, or pursue litigation in federal district court. Students submit detailed comments and live testimony in rulemaking proceedings before the FCC, Copyright Office, PTO, FDA, FTC, and other agencies. Students also work closely with clients to provide counseling and legal advice to help those clients solve complex tech, IP or other innovation-related legal, technical, and business problems. And students draft public-facing policy whitepapers or “best practices” documents to influence tech policy in ways that benefit innovators and innovation. In all our work, we engage with and seek to understand the role that race, racism, and structural inequality play in the development, deployment, use, and regulation of technology. Students work on cases and projects to advocate for antiracist policies, laws, and regulations throughout the tech sector.
Our clients are non-profits and advocacy organizations; groups of innovators, entrepreneurs, technology users/consumers, legal academics, computer scientists, or technologists; or sometimes individual entrepreneurs, startups, biohackers, media critics, or open-source advocates, among others. Our work ranges across tech areas such as internet/information technology, biotech, pharmaceuticals, and online speech and media. In all these activities, students are immersed in the vital role lawyers play in identifying and evaluating options for their clients and developing and presenting sophisticated written and oral arguments on their behalf to achieve their goals. The clinic experience helps students develop a rich set of skills, judgment, commitment to racial and social justice, professional identity, and doctrinal knowledge that they carry beyond SLS into their lives as lawyers and advocates.
Recent projects include over 25 amicus briefs to the Supreme Court plus amicus briefs to the Federal, DC, Second, Third, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits and several federal district courts; amicus submissions to the California Supreme Court, the European Court of Human Rights, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe; a lawsuit and appeal against the FCC seeking to stop its rollback of critical net neutrality rules; trademark litigation before the TTAB; major comments to the US Patent Office on diversity and representation in innovation, the Copyright Office on DMCA Section 512 and 1201 and software copyright, and the FDA on genetic testing and personalized medicine; several rounds of live testimony before the Copyright Office in Washington, DC, Los Angeles, and San Francisco; public whitepapers aimed at tech startups explaining alternative, innovation-friendly patent licensing practices; counseling of individual clients about fair use, first-sale and contractual issues, open source hardware and content licensing, innovative patent strategy, copyright and trademark registrations, and more.
The Clinic is Hiring!! In addition to the new GitHub Developer Rights fellow, we’re still looking for an experienced and committed attorney to join our teaching and practice team as a Clinical Supervising Attorney and Lecturer in Law. This is a rare opportunity to become an integral part of all aspects of our mission to train outstanding law students and represent clients in our rich and exciting docket of significant matters focusing on technology and intellectual property policy, appellate and agency advocacy, IP strategy, and client advising and counseling. See the online job posting for more details.
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Juelsgaard Clinic Asks Supreme Court to Protect Free Speech from Trademark Lawsuits
Can a famous brand use trademark lawsuits to chill lawful speech protected by the First Amendment? Juelsgaard Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic students Victoria Fang (JD ’24) and Julia Laurence (JD ’24) recently filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to answer “no” to that question and protect free expression. The…
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We founded the Juelsgaard Clinic to try to get beyond tired pro-IP, anti-IP debates and take a nuanced, industry-specific view of IP and other regulations affecting innovation. Under Phil Malone’s direction, the clinic has done just that, weighing in in cases ranging from pharmaceutical antitrust to software patents with knowledge and sensitivity to the specific characteristics of each industry. I have been privileged to work with the clinic both as an advisor and as one of their clients, and I can attest that their work is first rate.
Mark Lemley, William H. Neukom Professor of Law and Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology
