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Cursus: RGMUPRV008
RGMUPRV008
Innovation Law
Cursus informatie
CursuscodeRGMUPRV008
Studiepunten (EC)7,5
Cursusdoelen
After this course:
  • the student has gained insight into the role of law in protecting and promoting technological innovation;
  • the student has substantial knowledge of European innovation law in general and patent law in particular;
  • the student can apply the acquired knowledge to analyse and solve a patent case;
  • the student has developed his skills to advocate a case.
Inhoud
Innovation is often seen as the answer to the challenges of our society. Technological progress would, for instance, enable sustainable development, curb health care costs and restore the competitiveness of the European Union.
To realize the ambitions of Europe in the field of innovation, knowledge of industrial property rights and how these rights can be enforced, is indispensable. Granting and protecting industrial property rights, such as patents, is one of the most important resources that the legislator has to stimulate innovation and encourage the sharing of inventions.
At the same time an excessive protection of industrial property can impede further innovations. This effect is for instance reflected in the criticism of certain uses of patent rights in the pharmaceutical industry and of the practices of so-called patent trolls in the telecommunications sector.
In this course you will learn how the law protects and promotes technological innovations and you will learn to think about the right balance between too much and too little protection. The focus is on European patent law, but we also pay attention to other relevant parts of the law, such as plant variety rights, the protection of business secrets, the enforcement of intellectual property rights and competition law.

The course consists of a series of lectures, including guest lectures by experts in the field. In addition, there is a weekly interactive tutorial that teaches you how the law should be applied in practice. To give you a feel for the complexity of capturing an invention in the claims of a patent, you will draft a patent application yourself. You will experience how a patent case proceeds by participating in a Moot Court case.


Place of the course in the curriculum:
  • Compulsory course in the specialisation 'Intellectueel eigendomsrecht'
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