IP institutes
Annual IP Summer Institute (IPSI)
Franklin Pierce Law Center's Intellectual Property Summer Institute, established in 1987, is the most comprehensive academic summer program in intellectual property law and licensing (technology transfer) in the United States. Each year the Intellectual Property Summer Institute (IPSI) includes students from Pierce Law, students from ABA-accredited law schools and intellectual property attorneys and professionals from around the world.
IPSI brings together scholars, practitioners, government officials, and students in a single forum. Participants interact and share their diverse experiences and perspectives in a pleasant and relaxed New Hampshire environment, with mountains, lakes, seashore and golf courses nearby.
Courses are intensive, yet the atmosphere remains informal. Much of the curriculum is devoted to the development of sound practical intellectual property skills while other courses are more theoretical or international in approach. Up to six credits may be earned in five weeks in this concentrated, intensive program. Law students may gain professional practice skills, enabling them to "hit the deck running" when they enter intellectual property practice.
China Intellectual Property Summer Institute (CHIPSI)
Franklin Pierce Law Center leads in intellectual property education in the United States. The China Intellectual Property Summer Institute at Tsinghua University School of Law, Beijing which started in 2002, is a natural extension of the Intellectual Property Summer Institute which has been held at Pierce Law every summer since 1987.
Tsinghua University, the premier institution of science and technology in China, established its School of Law in 1999 in a new facility at the center of the Tsinghua campus in northwest Beijing, the site of the former Imperial Gardens of the Qing dynasty princes. The location is very convenient to Beijing International Airport.
Pierce Law-University College Cork e-Law Summer Institute (eLSI)
Franklin Pierce Law Center is a leader in intellectual property education in the United States. The Pierce Law Summer Study Abroad Program at University College Cork, in Cork, Ireland is a natural extension of the Intellectual Property Summer Institute which has been held in Concord, New Hampshire, every summer since 1987. The University College Cork Faculty of Law has developed considerable teaching expertise in the fields of e-Law and Commercial Law, a perfect complement to the Commerce and Technology curriculum of the Pierce Law Intellectual Property Program.
Pierce Law alum Jennifer A. Tegfeldt, Director, Business Initiatives and Strategy, Genzyme Corporation Cambridge, MA is a regular ALI speaker.
