Gavin Milczarek-Desai Executive Director, Intellectual Property Clinic gavinm@email.arizona.edu We do not provide legal representation in a case, which means we cannot act as a lawyer or work on your case in the long term. However, we can inform you about your legal rights and obligations, advise you, make recommendations and answer many questions. You may be faced with a legal situation or have a question about a legal issue, but it`s hard to know where to start to get the support you need. Life & Work Connections offers University of Arizona employees access to ComPsych LegalConnect®. The IP Clinic gives you the opportunity to put legal theory into practice and allows you to gain first-hand experience and learn more about legal research on real-world topics. Client counselling; administrative, transactional and procedural matters; case management; and formulate strategies to achieve your client`s goals. The clinic also gives you the opportunity to participate in commercial law practices that deal with start-ups. You will act like real lawyers for real clients with real intellectual property issues. In this way, you will help advise clients and startups on setting up a business unit and the agreements needed to set up a business. conducts patentability and infringement searches; conducts trademark searches; advises clients on the patentability of their invention, the strength of a brand and the best brands to choose, as well as on the prevention of infringement of the rights of others; and draft patent and trademark applications to be filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Our clinic also participates in U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) law school certification programs for patents and trademarks. These programs allow qualified students to practice before the U.S. Patent Office and the United States. Trademark Office, on its own behalf, including interviews with patent and trademark examiners. Finally, the IP Clinic, which serves as Arizona`s public patent program, was selected as the hub for the entire state of Arizona under the USPTO`s pro bono program. As such, students at the clinic have additional opportunities to work and gain experience with attorneys throughout the state. The clinic operates under the supervision of the clinic`s director, Dr. Gavin Milczarek-Desai; Lawrence Hecker, Professor of Practice and Business Lawyer; and supervising lawyer Antonio R. Durando.
As the university`s in-house legal counsel, OGC is responsible for dealing with the wide range of complex and highly specialized issues affecting higher education institutions. As advisors to the University, we draw on the expertise and perspectives of our lawyers to help the University advance its vision, achieve its goals and find solutions to problems by providing professional, timely and informed advice and advocacy. We use a dynamic team approach to work as an integrated consultant with departments and units in the planning, development and implementation of strategic initiatives. Always striving to proactively prevent problems and help clients refine and achieve their goals, at OGC, we encourage increased awareness of issues that may arise in a legal context. Our clients rely on us for reliable interaction, sound legal advice, public relations and training activities with university administrators, professors and staff. With optimism and enthusiasm, the Office of the General Counsel takes every opportunity to work with its academic partners. As part of the International Human Rights Workshop, Professor Howard offers law students the opportunity to work on ongoing cases and advocacy efforts before international human rights bodies. She has represented the Western Shoshone, the Apache Chiricahua, the Maya of the Toledo District of Belize and the Canadian Hul`qumi`num Treaty Group, and is currently a senior advisor to the Navajo Nation on its petition to the Organization of American States. Currently, Professor Howard and the students in her workshop support the mandate of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. As a student law clinic, we are very selective in the questions we accept and can only deal with a limited number of these issues. Acceptance as a client of the clinic is therefore not guaranteed and is mainly based on our available resources and abilities, the educational value for our students, the absence of conflicts of interest and the financial resources of the client.
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