Online Graduate Certificate: Engineering Intellectual Property Law
Engineering Intellectual Property Law
Tickle College of Engineering
Program Overview
Do you want to learn how engineering and laws work together to protect inventions? The University of Tennessee, Knoxville offers an online Graduate Certificate in Engineering Intellectual Property Law. This program is designed to empower engineering professionals with the legal expertise required to protect their inventions, designs, and innovations and as well as providing them with the needed foundation for IP protection related jobs.
Credit Hours
12
Cost Per Credit Hour*
In-State $861
Out-of-State $936
Modality
Asynchronous & Synchronous
Admission Terms
Fall, Spring
*Cost per credit hour is an estimate based on maintenance and university fees. Some programs may have additional course fees. Please contact your department for additional information on any related fees, and visit Tuition and Fees in Detail at One Stop.
Gain the Skills for a Better Tomorrow
The Engineering Intellectual Property Law graduate certificate program is designed to bridge the gap between the intricate domains of engineering and law, empowering engineering professionals with the legal expertise required to protect their inventions, designs, and innovations and providing them with the foundation for IP protection-related jobs. Key areas covered in the program include patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and contracting, providing an understanding of the legal framework surrounding these rights and strategies to apply them to engineering fields.
Career Opportunities
Potential careers include engineers and technical professionals, innovators, practicing attorneys interested in IP laws in engineering and technological contexts, inventors and entrepreneurs, patent agents, technology transfer professionals, government and policymakers, consultants in technology and innovation fields, and R&D professionals.
Required Courses
The 12-credit online graduate certificate in Engineering Intellectual Property Law consists of the following courses through a partnership between the Tickle College of Engineering and UT College of Law:
LAW 506: Contracts Legal Analysis and Drafting (MLS)
Introduces non-JD students to the basic agreement process and legal protections afforded by contracts. Topics include issues relating to formation of contracts (offer, acceptance, consideration, and other bases for enforcing promises); the Statute of Frauds; formation defenses (unconscionability, mistake, misrepresentation, fraud, and duress); issues arising after contract formation, including interpretation; duty of good faith; conditions, impracticability and frustration of purpose; remedies; third party beneficiaries; assignment and delegation; and coverage of sales of goods under Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code with respect to remedies, anticipatory repudiation, impracticability, and good faith.
LAW 512: Intellectual Property (MLS)
Introduces non-JD students to federal and state law concerning intellectual property and related interests, including patents, trademarks, trade secrets, copyright, right of publicity, and unfair competition.
ME 519 or IE 557: Technology Product Development and Entrepreneurship
Technology and innovation, technology transfer, patent protection, legal formation and intellectual property, knowledge management, generation and transmission, launching a technology-based business, sources of capital, small business growth and operation. Multidisciplinary teams will develop a business based on a technological product.
Elective Courses
Choose one 3-credit course:
IE 539: Strategic Management in Technical Organizations
Strategic planning process and strategic management in practice; corporate vision and mission; product, market, organizational, and financial strategies; external factors; commercialization of new technologies; and competition and beyond.
CBE 586 or ENVE 586: Sustainability Engineering, Design and Analysis
Principles and practical aspects of the design, commercialization, and use of processes and products that are feasible and economical while minimizing the generation of pollution at the source and risk to human health and the environment.
