Intellectual Property in Industry
Data is displayed for academic year: 2023./2024.
Lecturers
Course Description
This is an introductory course on intelectual property that discusses types of intellectual property and its use in the industry with particular focus on startup companies. The course will cover monetization of patents and other types of intellectual property, the defense of intellectual property with a number of practical examples from real cases.
Study Programmes
University graduate
[FER3-EN] Control Systems and Robotics - profile
Transversal Courses
(1. semester)
(3. semester)
[FER3-EN] Data Science - profile
Transversal Courses
(1. semester)
(3. semester)
[FER3-EN] Electrical Power Engineering - profile
Transversal Courses
(1. semester)
(3. semester)
Learning Outcomes
- Describe types of intellectual property and fields of applicability
- Explain the parts of a patent application
- Explain the need and the limitation of intellectual property
Forms of Teaching
Lectures
Week by Week Schedule
- What is intellectual property, why is it useful; philosophy behind it and brief history
- Patents and trade secrets
- Patents and trade secrets
- Copyright and mask design; trademark
- Copyright and mask design; trademark
- Procedures for registering and protecting intellectual property
- Patent application, how does on write one.
- Midterm exam
- Monetizing intellectual property; licensing; business use
- Monetizing intellectual property; licensing; business use
- Documenting intellectual property within a company; patenting strategy
- Patent infringement; trade-secret misappropriation; defense, litigation and remedies
- Patent infringement; trade-secret misappropriation; defense, litigation and remedies
- Guest Lecturer from Industry - overview of current procedures and practices
- Final exam
Literature
(.), Poltorak & Lerner: Essentials of Licensing Intellectual Property,
(.), H. Heines: Patents for Business: The Manager's Guide to Scope, Strategy, and Due Diligence,
For students
General
ID 222987
Winter semester
2 ECTS
L1 English Level
L1 e-Learning
15 Lectures
0 Seminar
0 Exercises
0 Laboratory exercises
0 Project laboratory
Grading System
85 Excellent
72 Very Good
60 Good
50 Sufficient