More than a dozen international IP LLM students at The John Marshall Law School spent a day at the Deerfield, Ill., headquarters of Baxter, an international pharmaceuticals company, listening to presentations by the company’s intellectual property attorneys.
The trip on Nov. 7, 2011, was arranged by Professor Benjamin Liu who accompanied the students, along with Professor Michael P. Seng, director of International Programs and program coordinator Zhan Weian. The visit, designed for students interested in intellectual property law, gave them the opportunity to hear and discuss issues that attorneys deal with in protecting those patents internationally. The John Marshall students, many of whom are attorneys, were especially interested in how the company IP attorneys operate and the product divisions within the company.
Each Baxter attorney is responsible for specific products or groupings of products, and specific regions across the globe. Dr. Amy Wilson, one of Baxter’s IP counsel, coordinated the visit. The other Baxter attorneys who addressing students were: Jessica Jamieson, Ira Finkelstein, Kirsten Anderson, Michael Mayo and Paula Kelly.
As guests of Baxter, the John Marshall delegation also was given a two-hour tour of the facility and got to examine a number of the innovative medical devices Baxter has developed.
Baxter International Inc., a global, diversified healthcare company, applies a combination of expertise in medical devices, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology to create products that advance patient care worldwide.