Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
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The Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property is a law review
Law review
A law review is a scholarly journal focusing on legal issues, normally published by an organization of students at a law school or through a bar association...

 published by an independent student organization at Northwestern University School of Law
Northwestern University School of Law
The Northwestern University School of Law is a private American law school in Chicago, Illinois. The law school was founded in 1859 as the Union College of Law of the Old University of Chicago. The first law school established in Chicago, it became jointly controlled by Northwestern University in...

. Its Bluebook
Bluebook
The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, a style guide, prescribes the most widely used legal citation system in the United States. The Bluebook is compiled by the Harvard Law Review Association, the Columbia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal....

 abbreviation is Nw. J. Tech. & Intell. Prop.

Overview

The Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property covers academic, business, and legal issues concerning intellectual property
Intellectual property
Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...

 and technology law. It publishes articles on a variety of topics including: copyright
Copyright
Copyright is a legal concept, enacted by most governments, giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time...

, trademark
Trademark
A trademark, trade mark, or trade-mark is a distinctive sign or indicator used by an individual, business organization, or other legal entity to identify that the products or services to consumers with which the trademark appears originate from a unique source, and to distinguish its products or...

, patent
Patent
A patent is a form of intellectual property. It consists of a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention....

s, the Internet, media, telecommunications, health care, antitrust, e‑discovery, and trial and litigation technology.

The Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property publishes three full issues each year and five "perspectives" issues. Perspectives issues contain shorter articles detailing a new development in the law of intellectual property or offering a new perspective on more developed issues within the law.

Symposia

Every Spring, the journal hosts a symposium on emerging areas of technology and intellectual property law. Recent symposia have included: "New Rules for a New Day: Examining Recent Trends in IP Law" (2010) and "Riding the Wave: Understanding Recent Developments in IP Law" (2009).
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