ASU Law launches Wolin Family Center for Intellectual Property Law; ASU News, May 6, 2025

Kourtney Kelley, ASU News; ASU Law launches Wolin Family Center for Intellectual Property Law

"The Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University has launched the Wolin Family Center for Intellectual Property Law — a groundbreaking initiative designed to shape the future of intellectual property law through legal education and industry collaboration.

With a robust curriculum, hands-on experiential learning and strategic partnerships, the Wolin Center will serve as a national leader in preparing the next generation of attorneys to navigate the rapidly evolving IP landscape. 

The center will focus on core areas of IP law — including patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets — while also tackling emerging opportunities such as AI-generated content, digital copyright and data privacy...

The center is named for Harry and Tracy Wolin, who met in the Phoenix area while working in Motorola’s intellectual property department. Harry retired in 2024 from AMD, a Silicon Valley-based semiconductor company, where he was senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary for more than 20 years. Prior to becoming general counsel in 2003, Harry was vice president of intellectual property. He is an alumnus of ASU Law, having graduated with his JD in 1988."

Can you become a lawyer by listening to Taylor Swift?; BBC, June 3, 2024

 Jamie Russell, BBC; Can you become a lawyer by listening to Taylor Swift?

"While Taylor Swift was on her record-breaking Eras Tour, one Swiftie was using the star’s music in a bid to pass her law degree.

Regan Caie, a law student at the University of Glasgow, wrote her fourth-year dissertation about Swift's re-recorded albums and copyright law.

The music star has re-recorded and re-released four of her first six albums over a copyright dispute with producer and artist manager Scooter Braun.

Regan, 21, said her dissertation combined her love of Swift's music with her ambition to eventually specialise in copyright and intellectual property law."

Free Textbooks for Law Students; Inside Higher Ed, January 3, 2020

Lindsay McKenzie, Inside Higher Ed; Free Textbooks for Law Students

"Law school is notoriously expensive, but a growing number of professors are pushing back on the idea that law textbooks must be expensive, too. Faculty members at the New York University School of Law have taken matters into their own hands by publishing their own textbooks at no cost to students."

Becoming a trademark practitioner; U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, March 2017

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Becoming a trademark practitioner


"Requirements to practice trademark law

Any individual who is an active member in good standing of the highest court of any State may represent others before the USPTO in trademark matters. Attorneys are not required to apply for registration or recognition to practice before the USPTO in trademark matters. See 37 C.F.R. §§ 2.17; 11.1; 11.14. Subject to limited exceptions, individuals who are not active U.S. attorneys may not represent others before the USPTO in trademark matters. All individuals who represent others before the USPTO are subject to the disciplinary jurisdiction of the USPTO. See 37 C.F.R. § 11.19.

Becoming a trademark attorney

As noted above, U.S. attorneys need not apply for registration to practice trademark law before the USPTO. If you are a law student interested in becoming a trademark attorney, you may want to consider participating in the USPTO’s Law School Clinic Certification Program. Only law students enrolled in the clinic program at a participating law school may receive limited recognition to practice in trademark matters."