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Intellectual Property Scholarships
ABA/BNA Award for Excellence in the Study of Intellectual Property Law
Each year the American Bar Association's Section of Intellectual Property Law and BNA., invite law schools around the country to participate in the annual ABA/BNA Award for Excellence in the Study of Intellectual Property Law. The intent of the project is to honor superior academic performance and to encourage student interest in the field of intellectual property law. Law schools may select up to three (3) second or third-year students with the highest grade point average or similar criteria in a basic intellectual property law course. If the school has separate day and evening programs, a separate set of awards will be offered for each program.
Arent Fox Annual Diversity Scholarship Program
Arent Fox is seeking applicants for its third-annual Diversity Scholarship Program. The firm will award three first-year law students $15,000. The scholarship recipients will also join Arent Fox’s 2008 summer associate program. Each of the firm’s three offices – Washington, New York, Los Angeles – will host one of the recipients for the summer.
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP 1L Diversity Scholarship Program
DWT will award two scholarships, which will consist of a paid Summer Clerkship and $7,500 for second year tuition and expenses. All first-year law students of color, or others of diverse background may apply. Applicants must demonstrate academic achievement and participation in community and civic activities that promote diversity within the legal profession. Applicants must also be willing to commit to working as a Summer Associate in Davis Wright Tremaine's Seattle office between their first and second years of law school.
Faegre & Benson Diversity Scholarship Program
Scholarship recipients will receive $6,000 payable for their second year of law school, and an additional $6,000 for their third year of law school. Recipients will also have the opportunity to be Summer Associates in one of the Firm's U.S. offices between their first and second years of law school. To be eligible for the scholarship, candidates must successfully complete their first year of a full-time J.D. program in 2007-2008, with an anticipated graduation date of Spring 2010.
Finnegan, Henderson Diversity Scholarship
The Finnegan Henderson Diversity Scholarship is open to persons of a minority heritage attending top law schools around the nation with a demonstrated commitment to pursuing a career in intellectual property law. Each scholar is given $15,000 per year for tuition and other law school fees.
Giles Sutherland Rich Memorial Scholarship (The Federal Circuit Bar Association)
This award seeks a law student showing financial need and demonstrated academic promise, either in undergraduate studies or in law school, and an interest in an area of the law within the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Goodwin Proctor annually awards stipends of $15,000 each to up to three minority law students who demonstrate exceptional academic performance, outstanding leadership, a commitment to community service, interest in the private practice of law, and other special achievements and honors.
Institute for Intellectual Property and Information Law Sponsored Scholarship Grants Program
The IPIL SSG program provides grants for IPIL-related scholarship from scholars serving or soon serving the Federal Appellate Courts as judicial clerks under a two-year or less appointment. The program is made possible through the remarkably generous support of the Institute's contributors and supporters, most of whom are practitioners and organizations in Houston, a city with one of the most sophisticated intellectual property bars in the world.
IPO Education Foundation Donald W. Banner Corporate Intern Scholarship
Two $10,000 scholarships will be awarded to outstanding law students who have completed an internship in a corporate intellectual property law department and intend to pursue a career in intellectual property law. The mission of the scholarship program is to assist law students pursuing intellectual property law careers with their educational expenses and to encourage law students to seek internships with corporate intellectual property law departments. To increase awareness about corporate internship programs, the Foundation publishes a list of companies that offer IP department internships.The Food and Drug Law Institute H. Thomas Austern Memorial Writing Competition
The Food and Drug Law Institute (FDLI) sponsors the Writing Competitions to encourage law students interested in the areas of law that affect foods, drugs, devices, cosmetics, and biologics. Winning papers will be considered for publication in the Food and Drug Law Journal. There are two competitions—one for papers with a maximum of 40 pages, and one for papers between 41 and 100 pages. A first prize of $1,500 and a second prize of $1,000 will be awarded in each category.
Howard T. Markey Memorial Scholarship (The Federal Circuit Bar Association)
Awarded in memory of Howard T. Markey, this scholarship will be given to a law student showing financial need, demonstrated academic promise, and an interest in public service.
Jan Jancin Competition & Award (American Intellectual Property Law Education Foundation)
The Jan Jancin Competition includes two separate awards offered to law students nominated by their schools who have excelled in the study of intellectual property law. The first award is the Jan Jancin Award, which includes a cash award of $5,000. The second award has been established by the Past Presidents of the American Intellectual Property Law Association and awards up to a maximum of a $2,500 cash award.
Ladas Memorial Award (International Trademark Association)
Established in tribute to the distinguished practitioner and author Stephen P. Ladas, this award is presented annually in two author categories, Students and Professionals. The Award is given to the best paper on the subject of trademark law or a matter that directly relates to or affects trademarks.
McDermott Minority Scholarship
McDermott will award a $15,000 scholarship and a position in a McDermott Summer Program to two second-year minority law students from ABA-accredited law schools. Students who meet McDermott's hiring criteria and demonstrate leadership, community involvement, and a commitment to improving diversity in the legal community should consider applying.
Milbank Diversity Scholars Program
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP will award two students with a salaried summer associate position and a $50,000 scholarship. $15,000 will be distributed during the students’ third year of law school, and payment of the additional $35,000 will be awarded contingent upon receipt and acceptance of an offer of permanent employment, to be paid upon the students’ joining the Firm.
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) annually sponsors the Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition, and awards five national prizes for papers on copyright law. A First Prize of $600 and a Second Prize of $250 will be awarded for the two best papers at each participating law school on any aspect of copyright law. In addition, the paper awarded the First Prize will be submitted to the National Competition, where First, Second, and Third Prizes (of $3,000, $2,000, and $1,000, respectively) are awarded.
The Proctor & Gamble Scholarship
The purpose of this scholarship is to encourage and support the increase of minority representation in the practice of patent law. The scholarship is $5,000 to be used for relocation and living expenses for a U.S. or Canadian law student to spend a year as a full-time, visiting student at Franklin Pierce Law Center. Applicants must be second- or third-year law students.
Sidney B. Williams, Jr. Minority Law Student Scholarship Program
The $10,000 Law Scholarship will be awarded to minority students developing a career in intellectual property law or holding a past or present, full or part-time position in an area related to intellectual property law. Applicants must demonstrate financial need and outstanding academic performance in the undergraduate, graduate and law school levels (if applicable).
State Bar of California, Intellectual Property Section
Annual competition is for outstanding student papers in the area of intellectual property. The paper must relate to intellectual property law (e.g., copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, privacy, right of publicity). The applicant must be a California resident in full-time attendance at any law school in the U.S. or a non-California resident in full-time attendance at a California law school.
