Advanced Intellectual Property Policy and Practice - JURD7357
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Sydney
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: 36 UOC of JURD courses for student enrolled prior to 2013. For students enrolled after 2013, 72 UOC of JURD courses. Co-requisite: Foundations of Intellectual Property Law (JURD7321) or Intellectual Property Law (JURD7617).
Equivalent: LAWS3057
Excluded: JURD7446
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
This is a course for students who have already learned the fundamentals of intellectual property law. It offers students theopportunity to explore some contentious areas of interest, debate and policy development within intellectual property law(e.g. trade mark counterfeiting and copyright piracy; the interplay of marketing, branding and trade marks; issuessurrounding bio-prospecting and ownership of genetic material; and access to essential medicines), as well as introducingpractical issues graduates are likely to confront if they practice in the area (such as franchising; portfolio management;criminal offences; registration practice and strategies; parallel importation; geographical indications).
The course provides a solid general knowledge of relevant issues and skills for students wishing to practice in intellectual property law, and a good grounding in intellectual property research for students considering writing a thesis or undertaking postgraduate studies in this area.
Main Topics
The course provides a solid general knowledge of relevant issues and skills for students wishing to practice in intellectual property law, and a good grounding in intellectual property research for students considering writing a thesis or undertaking postgraduate studies in this area.
Main Topics
- Intellectual Property theory and the legal application of conceptual issues in intellectual property law (e.g. copyright’s concepts of authorship/originality/idea-expression dichotomy/substantiality)
- Politics of Intellectual Property (Australian and global)
- Indigenous ‘intellectual property’ systems and alternatives to contemporary international (TRIPS based) intellectual property standards (e.g. Open Source software models)
- Intellectual propertization: How far should the expansion of intellectual property laws go?
- Enforcement issues: Trade mark counterfeiting and copyright piracy; criminal offences in intellectual property law (incl. Australian Customs procedures)
- Intellectual property, marketing and branding practice (including character merchandising and personality rights)
- Intellectual property, bio-prospecting and owning life
- Intellectual Property and Access to Essential Medicines
- Interdisciplinary approaches to intellectual property (e.g. marketing, sociological, economics)
- Contract law in intellectual property practice; Licensing Agreements (incl. compulsory licensing and technology transfer), Copyright Permissions & Franchising
- Intellectual Property Portfolio management
- Trade mark Registration practice and procedure (incl. registration strategies); Overview of patent registration practice and procedure (including drafting/interpreting claims/specifications
- Parallel importation and Exhaustion in Australian and international copyright and trademark law
- Geographical Indications and related law
- Adopting integrated Intellectual Property Strategies pre- and post- dispute (incl. Copyright/Designs Overlap; litigating trade mark law alongside passing off and s.18 ACL actions).
More information can be found on the Course Outline Website.
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