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Maryland Intellectual Property Legal Resource Center
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A JOINT INITIATIVE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF LAW and THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT |
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Technology Development Center 9700 Great Seneca Highway Rockville, MD 20850 Phone: 240.453.6246 Fax: 240.453.6208 |
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POLICY STATEMENT
Mission
Recognizing the critical importance of intellectual property assets to high technology companies, the MIPLRC has been created to educate entrepreneurs, law and business students, and the community about the legal aspects of IP. The MIPLRC can educate entrepreneurs about, and connect them with, legal service providers. As part of its mission, the MIPLRC also provides legal services, primarily through a law school student-staffed legal clinic, under the supervision of a licensed patent attorney and affiliated faculty and area specialists.
Legal Services
The MIPLRC's primary goal remains legal education, hence only limited legal services may be provided, as agreed upon by the parties and reflected in a client agreement. The MIPLRC Advisory Board and Review Committee will govern the nature of legal services and counseling provided. The natures of legal services available are explained on the link Type of Legal Services.
The Role of the Center
The MIPLRC provides services from its location at the Maryland Technology Development Center (MTDC) in Montgomery County, Maryland. The Center offers academic courses for students at the University of Maryland School of Law, presents workshops and lectures on intellectual property, business formation and other legal issues to start-up high-technology and biotechnology companies, and provides legal information to companies in the MTDC. While programs will expand as the Center matures, the MIPLRC is already functional in its three components: an academic program, a clinical program and a public policy and ethics program.
- Through its academic component, the Center
offers academic courses for credit for law students,
and as appropriate in the future may for local attorneys
and high-tech business entrepreneurs, scientists
or employees of research institutions. The MIPLRC
also sponsors workshops and lectures related to
intellectual property and other high-tech, start-up
issues. Open to the public, these offerings are
aimed at researchers and entrepreneurs.
- Through the Center's clinical component,
law students provide basic legal information to
individuals and companies and assist them with accessing
available legal resources. Using affiliations with
nationally recognized law firms, the Center facilitates
contact with appropriate legal service providers.
- Through its public policy component, the Center provides a forum for discussion of ethical and public policy issues related to the biotech industry such as privacy of genetic information, gene patenting and licensing, use of human tissue for research and human subject research and provide information to area startups on relevant legislation pending at the state and national levels.
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