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Study Plan
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TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
Intellectual property law (2020/2021)
Teaching code
4S02898
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
IUS/04 - BUSINESS LAW
Period
II semestre dal Mar 1, 2021 al Jun 11, 2021.
Learning outcomes
The course aims at providing students an overview about different disciplines that regulate the intellectual property field (such as the regulation of the rights of authorship, of the distinctive characteristics, of the industrial secret, of the industrial inventions), as well as the instruments for the comprehension of the role that intellectual property assumes in the field of modern ideas of economy and trade. The course covers the main aspects of the intellectual property regulation: the nature and extension of concerning rights, the procedure designed to the registration and obtainment of the intellectual property rights, as well as the methods for their protection and enforcement. The course will examine the international agreements and regulations, and the EU measures of intellectual property concern.
Program
Content
The course will be focused on patent law, with particular reference to the rules concerning biotechnological inventions.
Program
- fundamental principles of intellectual property
- national, european and international sources of law
- patent as an intellectual property right
- patent protection and trade secret
- patent object and non-patentable inventions
- novelty, non-obviousness, utility and public order
- patent rights and right to patent
- description, claims and patent application procedure
- transfer of patent rights
- biotecnological inventions
- plant variety
Teaching methodology
Lectures aim to analyze main basics of intellectual property law, links between rules and protected interests. In order to make it easier for students to understand applicative effect of rules, case-law will be used.
Bibliography
Musso, Brevetti per invenzioni industriali e modelli di utilità, Zanichelli, 2013, p. 1-420 (only text, footnotes not compulsory)
Notice
For the exam it is necessary to study the relevant norms of Italian Code of Industrial Property.
| Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
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| Musso | Brevetti per invenzioni industriali e modelli di utilità | Zanichelli | 2013 |
Examination Methods
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