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The Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Clinic (IP Clinic) has achieved a significant milestone with the issuance of its 20th patent.
Since the clinic began accepting patent application cases in 2018, it has handled matters such as rainwater collection systems, modules for powering manual wheelchairs, and self-navigating marine safety devices.
Led by Associate Clinical Professor of Law Gavin Milczarek-Desai, the clinic gives students the opportunity to handle IP matters before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) along with related business issues. Because preparing and filing a patent application and representing the matter before the USPTO ranges over multiple semesters, each patent matter involves multiple clinic students working collaboratively over a two- to three-year period before reaching either an allowance or final rejection.
In the past semester alone, the clinic secured allowance of five patents—nearly double the number achieved in any previous year since the clinic began accepting patent application cases.
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