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INF-6001 Intellectual Property Law and Policies
The Subject Matter
The course focuses on the law and policies of intellectual property. The course covers the basic principles of intellectual property law encompassing patent and copyright law; trade secrets, trademarks and service marks law. These principles are included and integrated into a presentation of data protection, Digital Rights Management (DRM), ownerships and intellectual property (IP) strategy.
Format
The format of the course is one week, which will include 5 days of teaching, each day with four 60 minutes lectures.
The course starts on Sunday afternoon with a social come-together for the students and teachers to become acquainted. During the course, there will be two social evening events with a substantial element like a guest speaker, aimed at providing some additional and stimulating perspective to the course content.
At least one breakout session will be schedule each day.
Target Audience
The course is directed to people from industry and to postgraduate students from within the European community.
Maximum number of participants is 30. The minimum number of participants is 15.
The following selection criteria to evaluate those applying for the seminar will be used:
Occupation (Industry or academia)
Student level (PhD student’s are preferred)
Practical IP background (please specify)
The applicants must be able to read, write, and speak English, as the teaching and examination language will be English.
Previous Knowledge
The participants will have (in general) no legal background or no special background in intellectual property law.
Study Points
The course corresponds to 15 study points (studiepoeng), equivalent to 15 ECTS.
Exam
The exam will be in the form of an essay written within a specified period of time after the termination of the course. The essay should be of a length approximating 20 standard pages and be at least 12,000 but not more than 15,000 words in length. The essay should be the sole intellectual effort of each participant, i.e., participants cannot collaborate with anyone in writing the essay.
The essay should be written in English.
Any participant wishing to receive credit for the course must take the exam. The exam will be optional for all other students. All participants will be given a "certificate" of attendance to the seminar.
The exam will be graded using a binary scale: "Pass" or "No Pass".
The participants must decide when registering whether they will take the course for credit or not.
Venue
The lectures and group work will take place at the University of Tromsø campus, September 18 - September 22 2006.
Study Fee
The study fee is NOK 7500. This does not include accomodation in Tromsø.
Registartion
Please contact Jan Fuglesteg for binding enrolment for the course by e-mail or phone (776 44 056) within Friday 18th of August at 15:00.
Lectures
Professor Bruce D. Shriver, Department of Computer Science, University of Tromsø, Norway.
Professor Jon Bing, Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway.
Organizer
The seminar will be offered by the Faculty of Science (Department of Computer Science) at the University of Tromsø, in cooperation with the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo.
Exam and credit will be arranged and granted by the University of Tromsø.
Literature
Literature consists of a collection of papers and reports and is included in the course fee.
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