Intellectual Property Law and Innovation - LAWS8046
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty 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: Acad Prog equal to 5265 or 9231or 5231 or 9220 or 5750.
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
LAWS8046 is compulsory for Graduate Diploma in Applied Intellectual Property students, unless an exemption is obtained from the Program Director, based on previous study of intellectual property law or comparable work experience.
Recommended Prior Knowledge
Course Objectives
- Have a clear understanding of the operation of, and relationships between, the various branches of the law that impact on the protection of innovation
- Be able to define and understand the law regulating innovation within the broader context of government policy and innovation strategy
- Be able to demonstrate a practical understanding of the above by successfully completing one or more problem question exercises, as well as presenting clear, cogent argued written arguments in a research essay.
Main Topics
- Introduction: what is innovation law?
- Government strategies and their relationship with the law
- Protecting innovation as trade secrets
- Protecting innovation through patent law
- Protecting innovation through copyright law
- Protecting designs
- Branding law
- Sui generis legal regimes
- International protection of innovation
- Innovation strategies: commercialisation and IP management issues
Assessment
| Class participation | 20% (maximisable) | |
| Problem Question(s) | (approx. 3,000 words) | 50% |
| Research essay | (approx. 3,000 words) | 50% |
Course Texts
Prescribed
W. van Caenegem, Intellectual Property Law and Innovation (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Recommended
K. Bowrey et al, Australian Intellectual Property: Commentary, Law and Practice (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2010)
L. Bently and B. Sherman, Intellectual Property (3rd ed) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
W. Cornish and D. Llewelyn, Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks and Allied Rights (6th ed) (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2007)
M. Davison et al, Australian Intellectual Property Law (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2008)
M. Leiboff, Creative Practice and the Law (Sydney: Thomson Lawbook Co, 2007)
J. McKeough et al, Intellectual Property in Australia (3rd ed) (Sydney: LexisNexis Butterworths, 2004)
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