Pierce Law Journal IDEA Changes Name

Dean John Hutson at the Franklin Pierce Law Center announced today the approval of the change of the name of the Pierce Law intellectual Property Journal. IDEA: The Journal of Law and Technology will now be called IDEA: The Journal of Intellectual Property.

The change was part of an effort to reflect the ongoing focus of the Journal on IP matters. Over the last several years many other law schools have published JOLTs (Journal of Law and Technology). These journals do not focus on IP matters.

Historically, IDEA has not been a law review, per se. It has consistently published interdisciplinary articles. For those interested in history, IDEA was first published in 1957 as the Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal of Research and Education. The tile IDEA was added with volume 8. At that time IDEA was published by George Washington University. IDEA was later published by Pierce Law by agreement with the Pierce Law founder Dr. Robert Rines.

IDEA has become the preeminent academic IP Journal. It has been cited in many reported cases. See http://www.idea.piercelaw.edu/cited

You can find IDEA in print, on Lexis and Westlaw and on the Pierce Law Web at http://www.idea.piercelaw.edu/