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2007 - 2008 gammel / Course descriptions / AI101107 Intellectual Property Rights  

AI101107 Intellectual Property Rights

Course Code
AI101107

Course Name
Intellectual Property Rights

Credits
5.00

Target Audience
Students in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship

Prerequisites

Minimum university college entrance requirements

Objectives

Students should gain basic insight into intellectual property rights (IPR). After having completed the course, the candidate should be able to ensure that results from R&D and innovation projects are protected. The students should, moreover, understand how IPR may be used strategically. Within this course, the students should also gain insight into how various tools can be used to protect their ideas, through applications for trademarks, design and patents and how to avoid infringement with others IPR rights

The course is developed in close cooperation with the Norwegian Patent Office

Topics

* Industrial rights
* Introduction to patents
* Introduction to trademarks
* Introduction to registered design
* Copyright
* Strategic use of IPR
* Inventions and the rights of the inventor as employee
* Copyright in the digital world and domain
* IPR and the Norwegian marketing law
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Instruction

Lectures, seminars, group and individual exercises.Classfronter will be used in the exchange of information.

Mandatory Assignments

Three mandatory written assignments

Evaluation

Three mandatory assignments, which count 40%.
A three-hour written exam, which counts 60%

Hjelpemidler til eksamen
Ingen

Grades
ABCDEF .

Revised date
22/02/2007

Revised by
Øivind Strand