PROTECTING INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY

Année du cours : 3 année(s)

Etablissement : IÉSEG School of Management

Langue : English

Période : S1

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Understand the international, regional and local policies and legal framework of IPRs;
Be able to identify the peculiarities of EU IP law, compared to the US IP law;
Know which signs can be protected as trademarks, which inventions can be covered by patents and which creations can be protected by copyright.
Know what are the other layers of protection existing within the IP legal framework
Think strategically about the form of protection to be used for a sign, creation or an invention and the related management.
Apply legal rules to concrete scenarios autonomously and in team

I. Introductive remarks.
II. Promoting competition: the Protection of Disctintive signs.
III. Promoting innovation: the Protection of Scientific Activity.
IV. Promoting creativity and related investments.