Master
2024/2025
International Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence Law
Type:
Elective course (Law of International Trade and Dispute Resolution)
Area of studies:
Law
Delivered by:
School of International Law
Where:
Faculty of Law
When:
2 year, 1, 2 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of all HSE University campuses
Instructors:
Vladislav Starzhenetsky
Master’s programme:
Law of International Trade and Dispute Resolution
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
6
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Information and Intellectual property play a huge role in the modern economy in the current information age. It is one of the key ingredients of the sustained economic growth, promotion of innovation and technologies. Each country has its own IT-security, data protection and Intellectual property protection system including such main types of intellectual property rights as Utility Models and Patents, Trademarks, Industrial Designs, Trade Secrets and Copyright and Related or Neighboring Rights. However, the development of a more and more internationally oriented flow of technology and the increase of international trade require international regulation of IT and IP in order to provide uniform standards of protection and harmonization of laws worldwide. Within this course we will also concentrate on emerging regulatory trends and challenges of Artificial Intelligence.
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 IT/IP protection system, covering data protection, copyright, related rights, patents, trademarks, confidential information (know-how), enforcement of IP rights and international commercial transactions. 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/IT 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/IT Law and Regulation.
- – Students must gain knowledge on: • general standards of IP/IT protection under WIPO, WTO, EU and EEU Law; • enforcement of IP/IT rights in global prospective; • drafting international commercial transactions with IP/IT 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; • ability to search, analyse, and work with legally relevant information by using the juridical, comparative and other specific methods,
Course Contents
- Subject-matter, basic principles and sources of International IP Law and Regulation
- International copyright law
- International regulation of industrial property
- Regulation of intellectual property protection in Internet
- International commercial transactions with intellectual property rights
- Enforcement of Intellectual Property in global perspective
- International IT-Security and Data Protection Law
Assessment Elements
- Attendance, active participation and in-class discussion.Each student is expected to attend all the sessions having go through and thought about the assigned material, including the questions and any problems in the text/judgment, podcast, etc. that are assigned, and actively participate in class discussions, ask questions and take a position and comment on assignments. Sessions will be structured as a mix of lectures, seminars, and participative workshops in order to stimulate class discussion: the participants are expected to process the assigned materials in advance for each class.
- Essay 1A topic chosen by each student is subject to individual approval by the Course Instructor.
- Essay 2
Interim Assessment
- 2024/2025 2nd module0.2 * Attendance, active participation and in-class discussion. + 0.4 * Essay 1 + 0.4 * Essay 2
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
- Caso, R., & Giovanella, F. (2015). Balancing Copyright Law in the Digital Age: Comparative Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44648-5