Intellectual Property Law in a Global World

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Communicate arguments effectively and reference sources appropriately.
• Construct arguments and solve problems based on premises drawn from various sources.
• Undertake independent research and access primary and secondary sources effectively.
• Analyse complex written texts and evaluate different types of arguments.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Suggest possible legal developments to improve the efficiency and fairness of IP laws in a cross-border perspective.
• Explain the national, regional or international institutional framework of IP laws and the relevant policy debates with regard to exclusive rights, exceptions and limitations, and enforcement.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• The national, regional or international institutional framework of IP laws, as well as the relevant policy discourse with regard to exclusive rights, exceptions and limitations, and enforcement.
• Possible legal developments to improve the efficiency and fairness of IP laws in a cross-border perspective.

The module follows a thematic approach around some principal issues in the domain of IP, and reviews key developments and reform proposals advanced in a number of jurisdictions. More specifically, attention focuses on three major topics:

(1) the scope of exclusive rights granted by IP;

(2) exceptions and limitations to exclusive rights;

(3) enforcement of IP rights, both online and offline.

Teaching methods include:

Weekly 2 hour seminars

Online materials with clickable links

A forum on Blackboard for the exchange of ideas and information

Learning activities include:

Direct reading from a selection of primary and secondary materials followed by analysis of those materials

Presentation of prepared material in class and discussion of the issues raised

Analysis of online materials and embedded web links contained in seminar materials from the Blackboard online learning resource

Preparation for and participation in weekly seminars will develop:

The knowledge required for satisfaction of ‘knowledge and understanding’ learning outcomes

Your ability to:

(i) critically evaluate and assess the evolution and key debates surrounding IP

(ii)assess the nature of the various interests and rights at hand

(iii)apply the rules studied to factual situations

Transferable skills

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Draft piece

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Formative assignment feedback will be in the form of written feedback on the assessment feedback sheets, general feedback posted to Blackboard and oral feedback in class.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No
• Percentage contribution: 100%

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.