Amy Garber (MSL ’15) was already a successful patent agent when she joined the MSL program; she came to the MSL to learn more about how intellectual property assets impact business value. In the MSL program, she learned that and so much more – Amy met a like-minded team and went on to co-found Hazel […]
Patent Law
The Importance of Patent Law for STEM Professionals
At the Master of Science in Law program, students learn the key role of patents when protecting their inventions. Learn more about the importance of patent law for STEM professionals in this video, featuring MSL Professor Laura Pedraza-Fariña. Want to see more? Check out the MSL Professors Present playlist on YouTube.
The Patent Bar as a Gateway to a Career as a Patent Agent
On Friday, the MSL students had the chance to hear from three patent agents to discuss the patent bar, their career, and the professional opportunities in patent law. The panelists were Natalie Kaplan (Senior Patent Agent at the law firm Michael Best & Friedrich), Amy Garber (MSL graduate and Chief IP Officer at Hazel Technologies), […]
IP Careers: Patent Examiner and Trademark Examining Attorney
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 […]
Fighting Food Waste: Amy Garber (MSL ’15) and Hazel Technologies
Each year more than 25 billion pounds of post-harvest fruits and vegetables are wasted domestically, worth ~$30 billion, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. These statistics are astounding – and also heartbreaking when you consider the 42.2 million people, including 6.4 million children, living without enough to eat in the U.S. One Chicago-based company, […]
Career Highlight: Patent Practitioners
When I talk to people about the MSL program and mention how our robust curriculum in intellectual property can prepare them for careers at the intersection of law, business, and technology they often say something like this: “Oh yeah, like patent attorneys?” This is my opening. I get to tell them that there are actually […]
MSL Speaker Series: Paul Brown
The VP of Legal at UL (Underwriters Laboratory), Paul Brown, recently came to speak as part of the MSL Speaker Series. UL is a company that deals with safety issues; the company performs safety analyses of new technologies, most notably the public adoption of electricity and the drafting of safety standards for electrical components and […]