International Protection of Intellectual Property 2104-UPIR-D5INPR

1. Objects of intellectual property and their legal protection (artistic works, inventions, utility models, industrial designs and good will); characteristic of rights protecting intellectual property.
2. The most important sources of country and international regulations aimed at protection of intellectual property.
3. Copyright – objects, a starting point of copyright protection; content of a copyright and its protection; time limits of copyrights protection.
4. Copyright – Berne Convention 1886 (1979); fundamental rules: cross-border element; the conventional minimum of copyright protection; the assimilation rule; the automatic protection rule; the independence of copyright protection in different states.
5. Rome Convention Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations – 26.10.1961 and TRIPS Agreement (the minimum protection of related rights to copyright; the national treatment clause; the most-favoured nation clause; the protection of performers’ rights and rights of broadcasting organizations; the dispute settlement system of WTO; direct effectiveness of TRIPS provisions).
6. The WIPO Internet Treaties: The WIPO Treaty 20.12.1996 on the copyright – in force since 2002; WIPO Treaty 20.12.1996 on the Performance and Phonograms – in force since 2002; Beijing Treaty 24.6.2012 on audiovisual performances; WIPO Treaty 27.6.2013 to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled – in force since 30 September 2016 (Marrakesh Treaty).
7. Copyright in the UE/Industrial property rights - objects, a starting point of industrial rights protection; content of particular industrial rights and their protection; time limits of industrial rights protection.
8. Paris Convention 1883 (1979) - general rules of inventions’ protection.
9. Washington Patent Cooperation Treaty, 19.6.1970 (PCT).
10. Madrid System – international system for registration of trademarks; Madrid Agreement 1891; Hague System – international system for registration of industrial designs; Hague Agreement revised in Geneva in 1999. Lisbon System – international system for registration of appellations of origin; Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration (Geneva Act 2015).
11. License agreements and agreements on transfer of intellectual property rights – comparative approach.