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IP Strategy and Management - LAWS8148
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Faculty: Faculty of Law
 
 
School:  School of Law
 
 
Course Outline: See below
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: Academic Program must be either 9200, 9210, 9230, 5740 or 5265
 
 
Fee Band:   (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

This course considers legal issues relating to the management of intellectual property, as well as strategies for acquiring, enforcing and dealing with IP rights. Covering all aspects of IP but focusing on patents and confidential information, it will address such issues as: the acquisition of IP rights; managing complex IP ownership issues; ensuring that rights are not lost; managing IP portfolios and databases; strategies relating to enforcement and dispute resolution; and international aspects of the management and enforcement of IP rights. With an emphasis on the application of acquired knowledge, the course will be of particular interest to both lawyers and non-lawyers whose work requires a detailed understanding of the legal and practical issues relating to IP management.


LLM Specialisation

Innovation Law

Recommended Prior Knowledge

This course assumes a working knowledge of intellectual property based on study at undergraduate level or through completion of the postgraduate course LAWS4017. You will be expected to have an overview of intellectual property law or to have read J. McKeough, A. Stewart and P. Griffith, Intellectual Property in Australia (3rd ed) (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2004) and J. McKeough, K. Bowrey and P. Griffith, Intellectual Property: Commentary and Materials (4th ed) (Thomson Law Book Co, 2007).

Graduate Diploma of Applied Intellectual Property students are expected to have a working knowledge of intellectual property based on study of the postgraduate course LAWS4046.

Course Objectives

A candidate who has successfully completed this course should:
  • Have a clear understanding of the legal complexities involved in acquiring, maintaining and enforcing IP rights
  • Have acquired a strong sense of the various strategies that can be taken in relation to the management of IP rights
  • Be able to apply the above knowledge in a practical scenario, and be able to make cogent arguments about legal issues relating to the management of IP in a research essay

Main Topics

  • What is involved in managing intellectual property? Legal issues, strategic options and industry-specific issues
  • Overview of and strategies for the acquisition of intellectual property rights
  • Managing ownership of intellectual property
  • Maintaining intellectual property rights
  • Practical issues in maintaining IP databases and portfolios
  • ‘Policing’ strategies
  • Enforcement, dispute resolution and remedies
  • Strategies for the international management and enforcement of intellectual property

Assessment

Class participation 20% (maximisable)
Case Study Exercise 50%
Research essay (approx. 3,000 words) 50%
 

Course Texts

Prescribed
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Recommended
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Resources

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