Portale di Ateneo - En.Unibs.it

Day 1: The narrative of human knowledge and the inverted pyramid. Basic knowledge and applied knowledge. Inventions, creations, discovery. Exceptions
Day 2: Public domain and a comparison with available alternatives: secrets and IP rights. Differences and similarities
Day 1: Trade secrets and international regulation. The relationship with FDI policies and the contribution of the TRIPs. The new European directive on trade secrets.
Day 2: Issues of trade secrets: the "idea-sumbitter" problem (lab experiment). Agreements of non-disclosure.
Day 1. Protection by patents. Defining inventions (lab experiment) to the purposes of patent protection. Basic principles of patent law.
Day 2: Substantive patent law. Requirements for protection. Exceptions and exclusions from patentability.
Day 1: Patent protection and freedom to operate. The notion of infringement. Patenting and inventing around. Implications for tech transfer (concept of BATNA)
Day 2: Patents, software and business model. The actual reach of patent law in the digital markets
Day 1. Principles of trademark protection. Substantive patent law. Requirements for protection
Day 2. Trademark protection, the exhaustion principle and parallel import.
Day 1 and 2: no classes held because of the intermediate test.
Day 1. Copyright protection. Subject matter and actual reach of copyright protection in the digital economy
Day 2. Works of authorship and requirements for protection.
Day 1. International copyright law. Neighbouring rights. Term of protection. Fair and free uses.
Day 2. The problem with copyright in the digital world. From Gutenberg to Google. Digital rights management (DRM) techniques.
Day 1. Digital rights management systems and the evolution of digital copyright
Day 2. Basic notions of intellectual property exploitation agreements
Day 1. Ownership of intellectual property rights. The myth of the sole inventor and the employer-employee nexus.
Day 2. Intellectual property and standardization processes