15 Mar 2023
Teams from Nebraska Law, composed of 2L and 3L students, competed in the Rocky Mountain Regional of the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) National Patent Application Drafting Competition on Sunday, March 4. The 2L team of Tom Simonson, Luke Lacy, Jessie Sadlon, and Luke Zoller (pictured to the right), advanced to finals and finished in 2nd place out of 9 teams.
The competition challenges law students to develop patent prosecution skills by applying legal principles to a hypothetical invention scenario. Teams were required to analyze an invention statement, perform a patentability search, draft a set of patent claims and a patent specification, and then present and defend the application to a set of judges made up of patent experts.
The 3L team was made up of DeLaney Brink, Brady Stuhmer, and Jinah Shin. The teams are coached by attorney Matt Poulsen, ’10.