From SSKE

Service Engineering and Management Master Program

Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Course

Intellectual Property surveys the principal tenets of intellectual property, including trademarks, copyrights, patents, and trade secrets. The course also explores practical aspects of this area of law, such as client counselling and litigation strategy, and theoretical questions of public policy and the interplay of country and EU laws affecting intellectual property.

This course aims at preparing students to analyze a wide variety of intellectual property issues at a general level. Dealing with more narrow topics, such as copyright litigation or patent prosecution, may require additional, specialized study. This class should also help to polish student's legal reasoning skills and introduce students to some of the practical and ethical concerns of a working attorney.

Another major objective of the course is to study entrepreneurship with emphasis on personal characteristics, innovation, risk taking, and decision making as related to using land, labour, and capital for attaining organizational objectives, as well as to methods and techniques to identify market opportunities for a potential new venture.

The course presents:

• The main concepts and objects of the intellectual property right: patent, brand, industrial design, copyright;
• The base elements of protecting the intellectual property: established rights, breaking rights, piracy and counterfeiting;
• The base of intellectual property management, as part of company management;
• The intellectual property as technological development instrument.