For Authors

JPTOS is one of the oldest intellectual property journals in the United States. For nearly one hundred years, we have been at the forefront of the intellectual property debate and we will stay there with your contributions. Submissions can also be directly e-mailed to editor@jptos.org as well.

For Practitioners:
JPTOS is a publication written by and for the benefit of IP practitioners. We favor topical, practical articles that can be useful to our readers. There is no page length limit, however, articles greater than 40 double spaced pages may have to be split into separate articles.

We take article submissions pertaining to all areas of intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, hybrids between all those forms, etc., as well as cutting-edge law & technology issues that may intersect intellectual property topics such as blockchain, cryptocurrencies, NFTs, artificial intelligence, robotics, 3D-printing, privacy/surveillance law, social media, bioengineering, pharmaceuticals, COVID vaccine patents or patent policies, the pandemic’s impact on IP laws/practice and much more. If you are a practitioner/lawyer, judge, law professor, law student, writer or anyone having an interest in the above areas, please submit by clicking the “Submit Manuscript” button above today!

For Students:
The JPTOS Student Notes section was created to spotlight talent writers currently attending law school. Please limit submissions to twenty-five typewritten pages.

Submission Requirements for Students and Practitioners Articles must be:

Typewritten, double-spaced and available in (just about any) modern word processor format. No PDFs, please.
Bluebooked. We currently use the 19th Edition.
In final form. Please do not send a first draft.
On the topic of copyright, patents and/or trademarks.

Additionally, all submissions must include an electronically signed Grant of License and an author’s resume. The Grant of License can be accessed at: https://www.jptos.org/uploads/GOL_JPTOS0213w.doc

Again, submissions can be directly e-mailed to editor@jptos.org as well.