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Intellectual Property is one of the most dynamic and fastest growing areas of legal practice. Technology and social media are enabling the rapid distribution of content to millions of mobile phones, laptops, and tablets across the globe, with new legal questions surfacing every day. Every lawyer, from the solo practitioner to in-house counsel to transactional and litigation lawyers in large firms will increasingly be faced with IP issues.

This course covers the specific agenda of using intellectual properties for competitive advantage in product based industries. In the contemporary economic environment, intellectual assets like know-how, inventions, explicit content, brands, trademarks (forms of intellectual property), contractual agreements etc. are becoming an increasingly important proportion of a firm’s total wealth.

This course covers trademark, patent and copyright, as well as a number of sui generis intellectual property rights.  The overall theme of the course is that intellectual property is the legal form of the information age and thus that it is important not only for its enormous (and increasing) role in commercial life and legal practice, but also for its effects on technical innovation, democratic debate, cultural formation and international politics.

         The aim of the course is to provide students with a theoretical and practical understanding of the international regulatory framework of the global intellectual property protection system, covering copyright, related rights, patents, trademarks, confidential information (know-how), enforcement of IP rights and international commercial transactions with IP. A special emphasis is made on the World Intellectual Property Organization, World Trade Organization standards, and recent developments in EU and EEU law.

Objectives of the discipline:

- to introduce fundamental aspects of Intellectual property Rights to students who are going to play a major role in development and management of innovative projects in industries.

- to disseminate knowledge on patents, patent regime and registration aspects

- to disseminate knowledge on copyrights and its related rights and registration aspects

- to disseminate knowledge on trademarks and registration aspects

- to disseminate knowledge on Design, Geographical Indication (GI), Plant Variety and Layout Design Protection and their registration aspects

- to aware about current trends in IPR.

specialized competencies:

SC-2 −To be able to determine the types of documents to be processed for certain international trade transactions operations, as well as to prepare and execute international trade contracts.   

As a result of studying the discipline «Intellectual property law for business», a student must

know:

− basic concepts and categories of intellectual property;

− international and national regulations of intellectual property;

− modern trends of development of intellectual property;

− general standards of IP protection under WIPO, WTO, EU;

− enforcement of IP rights in global prospective;

− drafting international commercial transactions with IP component.

be able to:

         − to work with information (search, evaluate, use information, necessary for fulfilment of scientific and professional tasks, from various sources, including application of the systematic approach);

− to carry out professional activities in the international environment;

− to search, analyse, and work with legally relevant information by using the juridical, comparative and other specific methods.

possess:

− to use specific terms and sources of the global IP regulation;

− practical abilities of research, analysis of WIPO, WTO, EU legal documentation and scientific works;

− to analyze and solve cases, building up of the legal position and composition of procedural documents on cases in the sphere of international IP law.

All of the above will contribute to the professional implementation of the competence-oriented approach in the study of «Intellectual property law for business», effectiveness and quality of the educational process.

The academic discipline is closely related to the academic disciplines «Treaties in National Legal Systems».

In accordance with the curriculum, the study of the discipline is allocated: