| ANNUAL
COMPETITION FOR OUTSTANDING STUDENT PAPERS |
 The Intellectual Property Section of the State
Bar of California is pleased to announce its Annual Competition for
Outstanding Student Papers in the Area of Intellectual
Property
PRIZES
FIRST PRIZE:
$5,000 and an all-expense paid trip for the student winner and
his/her professor to attend the Intellectual Property
Section’s Annual Spring Meeting and award presentation
ceremony. The first prize paper will also be published as an
article in
New Matter, the Section’s journal, which is circulated to
intellectual property lawyers statewide.
SECOND PRIZE:
$3,000
HONORABLE
MENTION: $2,000
CONTEST RULES
ELIGIBILITY
To be eligible for consideration, the paper
must relate to intellectual property law (e.g., copyright,
trademark, patent, trade secret, privacy, right of publicity) and
have been written solely by a student (or students) who, at the
time the paper was written, was either:
- A permanent resident of California in
full-time (day or evening) attendance at any law school in the
United States; or
- A non-California resident in full-time (day or
evening) attendance at a California law school.
SUBMISSION
Submit five (5) copies of the paper to: The
Intellectual Property Section, State Bar of California, 180 Howard
Street, San Francisco, California 94105. Papers must be postmarked
on or before February 1. Please include a cover letter verifying
your eligibility and authorizing the Section to publish your paper
in New Matter if it is declared the winner. Papers must be no
longer than twenty-five (25) typed, double-spaced (8 1/2 " x
11”) pages, including notes and appendices.
JUDGING
The papers will be judged on the following
criteria: contribution to the practice of intellectual property
law, topicality, originality and creativity, and presentation of
information not previously published or available. The decision of
the judges is final. Papers must be of publishable quality, and the
Section reserves the right not to award any prizes, if, in the sole
opinion of the judges, none of the papers are of publishable
quality or meet the standards set forth above.
For a printable version of the brochure to post
or distribute to students, see
Annual Competition (pdf brochure).
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