Introduction to Protection of Intellectual Property 2102-ANG-L-D1IPIP

Intellectual Property Law – the notion and scope of application.

Intellectual Property Law and Intellectual Property Rights.

IP Rights – general characteristics – copyright protection and industrial property law protection.

IP Law – sources.

Moral and economic components of a copyright

Right to authorship and plagiarism.

Industrial property rights.

Course coordinators

Joanna Sapieżko-Samordak

Type of course

obligatory courses

Mode

General:

Classroom
Self-reading

Term 2024Z:

Self-reading
Classroom

Learning outcomes

A student knows the most important features of intellectual property rights and their sorts, the legal means of protection of intellectual property rights and the most important kinds of their infringements, in particular the notion of plagiarism.

Assessment criteria

Multiple choice test.

Practical placement

N/A

Bibliography

WIPO Intellectual Property Handbook:

http://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/intproperty/489/wi po_pub_489.pdf

International IP treaties:

http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/

H. G. Ruse-Khan, The Protection of Intellectual Property in International Law, 2016;

D.J. Gervais (ed.), International Intellectual Property: a Handbook of Contemporary Research, Chetltenham, UK, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2015

M. Kennedy, WTO Dispute Settlement and the TRIPS Agreement: Applying Intellectual Property Standards in a Trade Law Framework, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2016