In the 1990s, Marquette University Law School initiated a comprehensive curriculum of courses in the traditional areas of intellectual property (IP) law: patent, copyright, and trademark. This dedicated course of study quickly established Marquette University Law School as a leader in IP education. Drawing on that reputation, the Marquette University Law School established the IPILR to provide a student-edited forum for scholarly discourse on important issues that face IP attorneys in the United States. Though focusing on its mandate to present topics of interest to attorneys in the United States, the IPILR has acknowledged the breadth of the field by actively seeking papers addressing international IP issues. The inaugural issue of the IPILR was published in 1997. The IPILR was published annually through the 2002–2003 volume. Thereafter, the IPILR increased publication to two times per year with the 2003– 2004 volume. In 2005, an additional, special issue was published dedicated entirely to articles about the first ten years of the TRIPS Agreement. The twenty-second volume of the IPLR continued the tradition of providing our readership with a broad range of IP articles authored by academics and practitioners alike.
