As part of the Regional Seminar of the Elijah J. McCoy Midwest Regional US Patent and Trademark Office hosted by the Law School, MSL students were treated to a special panel on the role of the patent examiner and the trademark examining attorney. Alfrod Kindred, the outreach assistant regional director of the Midwest office, and […]
If you’re interested in becoming a patent agent or attorney, then you need to cross off one major to-do: take and pass the Patent Bar Examination. You don’t need a JD to take the exam but you do have to meet certain educational requirements in order to register. Once you have done so, setting up […]
Paula Fasseas, Founder and Chairman of PAWS Chicago, was the latest guest in the DPELC-MSL Speaker Series, where she wowed the students with the story of her volunteer grassroots organization. Since 1997, PAWS has been the national model for no kill animal shelters. Thanks to its efforts, the number of homeless pets killed in the […]
The MSL students were treated to a special lunch today with Matt McKay, a graduate of the inaugural MSL class. Matt now works as a Technical Specialist in the IP Legal Team at Cabot Microelectronics. He was joined by Erika Wilson, his supervisor and Chief IP Counsel at Cabot, as well as Carol Bernstein, the […]
Chicago Daily Law Bulletin featured the new online version of the Master of Science in Law and talked to Leslie Oster, program director of the MSL, about the benefits of the online degree. “Creating an online version makes the degree more accessible to a wider range of students,” Oster said. “It will also help extend the reach […]
One of the main features of the MSL program is Power Week, a whole week of compressed sessions that gives students the opportunity to take a diverse array of workshops and intensives that cover trending topics and specialized skills-building. Before break, students got to play detective during Dr. Jay Koehler’s Power Week class on Forensic […]
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law will launch a new online Master of Science in Law (MSL) degree in the fall of 2018. Like the campus-based MSL, it provides practical, business-centered legal training to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professionals. “The online format will expand the Law School’s ability to educate the next generation of leaders in […]
Sharon Ayd is the chief scientific officer and SVP, Pharmaceuticals at Regulatory Compliance Associates. She is also an adjunct professor in the MSL program. Her most recent article, “Managing the Cost of Non-Compliance“, was published in the November 2017 issue of Pharmaceutical Technology and covers the material she developed for her Spring 2017 MSL class Regulatory […]
The final guest of this semester’s DPELC-MSL Speaker Series was Olaf Gruess, Technology Manager & Global Connector at General Mills. Gruess has over 18 years of experience at the company and currently leads new product development and strategic research initiatives. He is also a big advocate of “Connected Innovation”, a new approach to venture work […]
Rishi Shah, Illinois’ newest billionaire, was the guest at the latest DPELC-MSL Speaker Series event. As the CEO and Founder of Outcome Health, Shah made headlines when his startup received the largest single funding round of any Chicago venture-backed company in the past decade. At the Speaker Series, he spoke about his path to becoming […]