Intellectual Property Law in the Digital Age

2023/2024

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

3

Кредиты

Кто читает:

Департамент правового регулирования бизнеса

Статус:

Курс по выбору

Когда читается:

4-й курс, 3 модуль

Преподаватели

Касаткина Александра Сергеевна

Филимонов Константин Владимирович

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Academic course «Право интеллектуальной собственности в цифровую эпоху» (“Intellectual Property Law in Digital Age”) is devoted to advanced studies of contemporary matters of theory and practice of Law and Regulation in intellectual property sphere in digital age. A unique course will help students to get a comprehensive legal education in the field of intellectual property in a fairly short time. The objective of the course is to be as practice-oriented as possible. The course examines the main institutions of intellectual property law in digital age: copyright and related rights, patent law, trademark law, legal regulation of domains. The course also includes sections of intellectual property in Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Big Data. The course combines elements of legal theory, comparative jurisprudence and current law enforcement practice with an emphasis on the latest technology. Course link: https://openedu.ru/course/spbu/PROPERTY_LAW_ENG/?session=self_paced_2022#

Learning Objectives

• The aim of the course is to provide students with a theoretical and practical understanding of the international regulatory framework of the global intellectual property protection system, covering copyright, related rights, patents, trademarks, confidential information (know-how), enforcement of IP rights and international commercial transactions with IP in digital age. A special emphasis is put on the World Intellectual Property Organization, World Trade Organization standards, and recent developments in EU and EEU law.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Students must gain knowledge on: - subject and sources of Intellectual Property (IP) Law in Digital Age (national and international level); - main principles of national law applicable to national and cross-border commercial transactions with intellectual property rights; - national and international market practice for structuring and documenting national and cross-border commercial transactions with intellectual property rights;
• Students must gain knowledge on: - main provisions, scope of application and content of the market standard legal documentation applicable to commercial transactions with intellectual property rights and the relevant legal concepts and vocabulary; - jurisdiction of national courts to resolve disputes arising out of commercial transactions with intellectual property rights.
• Skills and abilities: ─ ability to use specific terms customary in the context of national and international Intellectual Property (IP) Law in Digital Age; ─ understanding main legal concepts and areas of law applicable to commercial transactions with intellectual property rights; ─ understanding the structure of commercial transactions with intellectual property rights and the main legal documentation (contracts) documenting such transactions;
• Skills and abilities: ─ practical abilities to undertake a research and analysis of judgments, decisions and academic writings; ─ skills to analyze and solve cases, putting together a legal position and compose transactional documents documenting commercial transactions with intellectual property rights.
• Students should gain the following competences: ─ ability to work with information (search, evaluate, use information, necessary for fulfilment of academic and professional tasks, from various sources, including application of the systematic approach); ─ ability to carry out professional activities in the international market environment;
• Students should gain the following competences: ─ ability to search, analyze and work with legally relevant information by using of juridical, comparative and other specific methods; ─ ability to describe legal problems and situations in the area of cross-border commercial transactions with intellectual property rights.

Course Contents

• Topic № 1. Philosophical and Economic Justifications of IP Rights
• Topic № 2. Subject-matter, basic principles and sources of International IP Law and Regulation
• Topic № 3. International copyright law
• Topic № 4. International regulation of related rights
• Topic № 5. International regulation of industrial property
• Topic № 6. Regulation of intellectual property protection in Internet
• Topic № 7. International commercial transactions with intellectual property rights

Assessment Elements

• Сompleted online course on the platform (screen with course completion scores).
• Test in SmartLms

Interim Assessment

• 2023/2024 3rd module
  0.5 * Test in SmartLms + 0.5 * Сompleted online course on the platform (screen with course completion scores).

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Право интеллектуальной собственности. Международно-правовое регулирование : учебное пособие для вузов / И. А. Близнец [и др.] ; под редакцией И. А. Близнеца, В. А. Зимина, И. П. Оленичева. — 2-е изд., перераб. и доп. — Москва : Издательство Юрайт, 2023. — 284 с. — (Высшее образование). — ISBN 978-5-534-17108-2. — Текст : электронный // Образовательная платформа Юрайт [сайт]. — URL: https://urait.ru/bcode/532398 (дата обращения: 27.08.2024).

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Carlos Correa, & Jorge E. Viñuales. (2016). Intellectual Property Rights as Protected Investments: How Open are the Gates? Journal of International Economic Law, (1), 91. https://doi.org/10.1093/jiel/jgw005
• Право интеллектуальной собственности : учебник для вузов / Л. А. Новоселова [и др.] ; под редакцией Л. А. Новоселовой. — 3-е изд., перераб. и доп. — Москва : Издательство Юрайт, 2023. — 335 с. — (Высшее образование). — ISBN 978-5-534-17268-3. — Текст : электронный // Образовательная платформа Юрайт [сайт]. — URL: https://urait.ru/bcode/532762 (дата обращения: 27.08.2024).

Authors

• ERPYLEVA Nataliia Iurevna
• KASATKINA ALEKSANDRA SERGEEVNA
• Антоненко Наталья Александровна
• ANTONYAN ANNA ARTUROVNA