School of Social Sciences

Intellectual Property LLM

Year of entry: 2025

Course length: 12 months Full-Time

About the course

Enhance your career in an emerging field and build on your existing knowledge by developing sought-after expertise in intellectual property (IP) law.

On completion of this LLM, you'll have a thorough understanding of the law concerning intellectual property and patents in modern business- an indispensable asset in exciting innovative and entrepreneurial fields.

You'll benefit from being taught by IP experts who will take you through the economic, social and philosophical aspects of IP law development and encourage you to critically analyse the current legal framework, building your analytical skills and your confidence, ready to take your career to the next level.

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Benefit from our first-class facilities, including a purpose-built moot court where you can practically develop your skills

Join a university with a strong heritage of providing legal education since 1872, including graduates such as Dame Christabel Pankhurst

Our graduates are among the most targeted by top UK employers

(High Fliers 2024)

Compulsory Units

Trade Mark Law and Policy
Patent Law and Policy
Copyright Law and Policy
LL.M Dissertation

Optional Units

Academic Skills for Legal Studies
Postgraduate Competition Law in an International Context
The Principles and Practice of Corporate Governance
International Commercial Arbitration and Mediation Law

These are examples of units offered in 2023/24 and are subject to change.

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Where will your degree take you?

The demand for well-rounded graduates continues to grow worldwide. Our degrees allow you to develop a variety of both subject-specific and transferable skills suited to a wide variety of roles, such as reasoning skills, advocacy skills, problem-solving and high attention to detail.

Most of our recent graduates have gone on to work with leading organisations in life sciences, healthcare, communications and information technology sectors, and at top universities, with job titles such as Patent Attorney, Consultant, IP Litigator, Manager, and Researcher.

Many of our graduates choose to go on to research degrees (PhD), either at Manchester or at another leading university, where they expand the boundaries of our knowledge and pursue careers in research or academia.