Copyright, Patents, Trademarks, Design rights and Intellectual properties created by employees.
The industrial relevance of the course is achieved by continuously discussing and analysing how a company that have developed a new product can take advantage of the intellectual property systems, or how one can void to infringe on other companies intellectual property.
The aim of the course is to enable students to use different legal systems that afford protection for technological advances and industrial design. It is studied and learned how a creator may pose legal claims to his/her inventions, trade marks, industrial designs, copyright protected works, etc. These forms of protection are together known as intellectual property rights and are important in all product development, because they can afford considerable competitive advantages. The intellectual property rights are studies with the help of legal literature, legal statutes and legal cases. The aim of the course is that students will be familiar with the kind of technical developments that can be protected by intellectual property rights and the different legal assessments that are made within the intellectual property system.