970023 Intellectual property rights
- Type
- Seminar
- Semester hours
- 1
- Lecturer (assistant)
- Berthiller, Franz , Krainer, Florian
- Organisation
- Offered in
- Wintersemester 2024/25
- Languages of instruction
- Englisch
- Content
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This course is a mandatory seminar of the European doctoral network BIOTOXDoc, but open to all interested BOKU PhD students with an interest in Intellectual Property Rights. The seminar contains two approximately half-day sessions in presence, with homework which has to be conducted in small groups between the sessions.
The following agenda will be addressed in short impulse lectures, but mainly in active discussion during the seminar:
- What is IP?
- Patent, Trademark, Design, Trade Secret, Copyright
- What is a patent? Technicality, territoriality, duration of protection
- Why do patents exist (including advantages and disadvantages)?
- Procedural law: timing, deadlines, priority law
- Substantive patent law: What is novelty? What is an inventive step? What is (not) protectable?
- How should a patent publication be read?
- What is protected by a patent?
- Examples
- Previous knowledge expected
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Completed master study in a life science field. Interest, but no previous experience, in Intellectual Property Rights is expected.
- Objective (expected results of study and acquired competences)
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Successful participants of the course will understand the basics and importance of intellectual property rights. They will gain knowledge in different approaches to protect intellectual property in general and in patents in particular. They will learn to apply the obtained knowledge for their own research, but also will be enabled to discuss and evaluate approaches to protect intellectual property.
You can find more details like the schedule or information about exams on the course-page in BOKUonline.