Bachelor
2021/2022
Intellectual Property Law
Type:
Elective course
Area of studies:
Law
Delivered by:
School of Legal Regulation of Business
Where:
Faculty of Law
When:
4 year, 3 module
Mode of studies:
distance learning
Online hours:
18
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Aleksandra Kasatkina
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
4
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Intellectual property is the currency of the tech world. The pharmaceutical patent for Lipitor generated over $100 billion in revenue, the copyright for the Harry Potter franchise has generated over $25 billion to date, and the trademarked brands of the world’s largest tech companies now eclipse $100 billion in value. But what makes these intangible assets so valuable? Through the courses in this specialization, you will learn the differences between the various forms of intellectual property rights, including patents, copyrights, and trademarks, and their various applications to human innovations. Drawing from that knowledge, you will then work to develop a trademark strategy for a company, analyze a patent document, and address a copyright cease-and-desist request. After completing these hands-on projects, you will have the necessary framework to craft integrated intellectual property strategies tailored to an organization’s core business goals. Course link: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/introduction-intellectual-property?
Learning Objectives
- • The aim of the course is to provide students with a theoretical and practical understanding of the international regulatory framework of the global intellectual property protection system, covering copyright, related rights, patents, trademarks, confidential information (know-how), enforcement of IP rights and international commercial transactions with IP. A special emphasis is put on the World Intellectual Property Organization, World Trade Organization standards, and recent developments in EU and EEU law.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- • Skills and abilities: to use specific terms and sources of the global IP Law and Regulation; practical abilities of research, analysis of WIPO, WTO, EU and EEU legal documentation and scientific works; skills to analyze and solve cases, building up of the legal position and composition of procedural documents on cases in the sphere of International IP Law and Regulation.
- • Students must gain knowledge on: general standards of IP protection under WIPO, WTO, EU and EEU Law; enforcement of IP rights in global prospective; drafting international commercial transactions with IP component.
- • Students should gain the following competences: ability to work with information (search, evaluate, use information, necessary for fulfilment of academic and professional tasks, from various sources, including application of the systematic approach); ability to carry out professional activities in the international environment
- • Students should gain the following competences: ability to work with information (search, evaluate, use information, necessary for fulfilment of academic and professional tasks, from various sources, including application of the systematic approach); ability to carry out professional activities in the international environment
- • Students should gain the following competences: ability to work with information (search, evaluate, use information, necessary for fulfilment of academic and professional tasks, from various sources, including application of the systematic approach); ability to carry out professional activities in the international environment;
Course Contents
- Philosophical and Economic Justifications of IP Rights
- Subject-matter, basic principles and sources of International IP Law and Regulation
- International copyright law
- International regulation of related rights
- International regulation of industrial property
- Regulation of intellectual property protection in Internet
- International commercial transactions with intellectual property rights
Interim Assessment
- 2021/2022 3rd module0.5 * Interview with the teacher + 0.5 * Tests during the course
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan. (2016). The Protection of Intellectual Property in International Law. Oxford: OUP Oxford. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=2245884
- Pila, J. (2017). The Subject Matter of Intellectual Property. Oxford: OUP Oxford. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=2015210
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Carlos Correa, & Jorge E. Viñuales. (2016). Intellectual Property Rights as Protected Investments: How Open are the Gates? Journal of International Economic Law, (1), 91. https://doi.org/10.1093/jiel/jgw005
- Caso, R., & Giovanella, F. (2015). Balancing Copyright Law in the Digital Age : Comparative Perspectives. Heidelberg [Germany]: Springer. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=909908
- Intellectual property rights : legal and economic challenges for development, , 2014