2020-2022 Undergraduate and Graduate Bulletin (without addenda) 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
2020-2022 Undergraduate and Graduate Bulletin (without addenda) [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HI-UY 3434 History of Intellectual Property in America

4 Credits
This course, a history of successive regimes of patent, trade secret, copyright and trademark law from the early modern period to the present, introduces undergraduates to basic intellectual property concepts, language, the political and distributive implications of intellectual property regimes, and the possibility or even inevitability of alternative regimes.

Prerequisite(s): Completion of first year writing requirements
Note: Satisfies a humanities and social sciences elective.