Intellectual Property for Business - TABL5517
Faculty: UNSW Business School
School: School of Taxation and Business Law
Course Outline: TABL5517 Course Outline
Campus: Sydney
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: TABL5511 or LEGT5511 or permission from the Head of School.
Equivalent: LEGT5411
Excluded: JURD7617, LAWS8017, TABL3781
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
This course examines the key intellectual property rights granted by the statutory intellectual property regimes – trade marks, copyright, patents and designs – as well as the common law protection of confidential information and trade secrets. The protection of trade designations, branding and character merchandising through the statutory misleading conduct action and the common passing off action is also covered as is the protection of business goodwill through restraint of trade covenants.
The exploitation of IPRs through licensing and technology transfer arrangements is also examined.