Course detail

Technology Transfer and Protection of Intellectual Property

FP-MtodKAcad. year: 2017/2018

Introduction to the intellectual property law study: the aim, system, sources, international organisations (WIPO, WTO, EPO, UNESCO), public administration of the industrial property rights.
The basic elements of protected objects.
The exercising and enforcement of intellectual property rights.
Industrial property rights
Copyright and neighbouring rights.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. Ing. Vladimír Smejkal, CSc.

Department

Institute of Informatics (ÚI)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Analyze the case study of technologies transfer.
Demonstrate the knowledge in the intellectual property law in Czech republic.

Prerequisites

Good language skills.
Basic knowledge in the Czech law.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course contains lectures that explain basic principles, problems and methodology of the discipline, and exercises that promote the practical knowledge of the subject presented in the lectures..

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

The assessment is based on written examination. Criteria will be defined at the beginning of the course.

Course curriculum

1. Introduction to intellectual property law.
2. Sorts of intellectual property rights.
3. Protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights.
4. Industrial property rights.
5. Copyright rights.
6. Company intellectual property rights and his protection.
7. Transfer of the technologies.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

a) To provide students a knowledge and understanding the czech intellectual property law including its international and communitarian framework and methods of the intellectual property rights enforcement.
b) To distinguish rights and basic elements of the protected objects; to understand the legal disposition with the protected objects.
c) To understand principles and methods of the technologies transfer.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Regular attendance and active participation in lectures are required.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Hajn, Petr - Horáček, Roman - Čada, Karel. Práva k průmyslovému vlastnictví. 1. vyd. Praha : C.H. Beck, 2005. xxiv, 424. (Právnické učebnice). ISBN 8071798797.
Slováková, Zuzana. Průmyslové vlastnictví. Vyd. 1. Praha : Orac, 2003. 150 s. ISBN 80-86199-63-0.
Smejkal, V. a kol.: Právo informačních a telekomunikačních systémů. 2. vydání. Praha, C.H.Beck 2004, ISBN 80-7179-765-0.
Telec, Ivo - Tůma, Pavel. Autorský zákon. Komentář. 1. vyd. Praha : Verlag C. H. Beck, 2007. 989 s. Velké komentáře. ISBN 978-80-7179-608-4.

Recommended reading

Jakl, L. /ed. Nový občanský zákoník a duševní vlastnictví. 1. vyd. Praha: Metropolitan University Prague Press, 2012, ISBN 978-80-86855-87-5.
Johns, A. Pirátství. Boje o duševní vlastnictví od Gutenberga po Gatese. 1. vyd. Brno: Host, 2013, 636 str., ISBN 78-80-7294-711-9.

Classification of course in study plans

Type of course unit

 

Guided consultation in combined form of studies

3 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. Ing. Vladimír Smejkal, CSc.