📜 Where Worlds Collide: Putting Theory into Practice 🌍
Having the chance to apply classroom learning to real-world scenarios has been both thrilling and incredibly enriching. Engaging with actual clients, facing real problems, and meeting tangible expectations under pressure offered an unparalleled experience. Providing legal advice to a prospective patentee before the European Patent Office was particularly daunting. Knowing that your recommendations may significantly influence your client's decision-making process, even more so based on its authoritative nature coming from a The Innovator's Legal Aid Clinic, added a unique layer of responsibility and commitment to our tasks.
Saying that I'm proud of what our team achieved would be an understatement. I could not be more grateful for the hard work and long hours put in by our team in the development of a 15-page memorandum outlining a commercially viable patenting strategy. We also delved into the nuances of choosing between a European patent and one with unitary effect, alongside devising enforcement strategies and navigating the complexities of overlapping intellectual property rights. A heartfelt thank you to Sofia Cervato, Sofia Semina, Albert Gabriel Stefanoiu, Fruzsina Csaszar, and Cat An Nguyen!
This experience has been dynamic, challenging, insightful, but above all, super fun! I wholeheartedly encourage other fellow students to participate in upcoming projects.. I know I will!
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Advanced LLM in Intellectual Property Law and Knowledge Management
7moGood work Federico!