Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza

This course offers a systematic analysis of the European legal institutions for the protection of creativity, innovation and access to knowledge in the context of a global “information society”. The main objective of the course is to provide postgraduate students with solid knolwedge of current key European legislation and jurisprudence on intellectual property law, as well as with critical understanding of the policy challenges ahead.

Having completed the course, students are expected to

1. Demonstrate knowledge of key legal issues of the European harmonisation in the area of intellectual property rights.
2. Demonstrate critical understanding on the role and limits of intellectual property rights for the protection of creativity and innovation in the EU internal Market and in the global knowledge economy.
3. Demonstrate essential practical knowledge on how to apply for registered intellectual property rights in the EU.
4. Demonstrate an ability to apply key notions of European integration to legal and policy issues arising from the management of intellectual property rights in the knowledge economy.
5. Demonstrate an ability to ascertain the substantial European law from legislation, case law and secondary literature, as applied to intellectual property law.
6. Demonstrate an ability to critically evaluate current legal issues and future scenarios of European harmonisation of intellectual property rights.
7. Apply substantial law to cases relating to intellectual property law in the European context.
8. Demonstrate an ability to present relevant knowledge and understanding of legal problems of intellectual property in the information society in the form of reasoned and supported argument.
9. Demonstrate an ability to present cogent written and oral arguments to analyse legal issues of intellectual property law in the European context.
10. Demonstrate an ability to find relevant primary and secondary material for research from hard copy and electronic sources.

Indicative programme:

• Foundations and principles of European intellectual property law
• Patent law
• Copyright and related rights
• Design law
• Trade Marks
• Trade secrets and confidential information
• Enforcement and remedies
  

Frontal lectures and seminars. Master classes with experts will also be part of the programme.

The evaluation consists in both a written and an oral examination, each contributing 50% to the final grade.

The written exam consists in a 3,000-word essay on a topic to be agreed and approved by the course leader. The essay must be submitted one week prior to the date of the oral examination.

The oral exam is a 20/30-minute discussion during which students will defend their essay and answer questions covering all parts of the programme.

For the purpose of the evaluation, the following criteria will be taken in consideration in both the written and oral examinations:

- Adequate identification of the relevant legal issues

- Completeness of the answer

- Use of an appropriate legal terminology

Information on the course's textbook and other reading material is available on Moodle. Students are expected to enrol in the Moodle e-mearning page of the course and to check it regularly.

Students facing special learning disorders are kindly encouraged to inform the course's convenor and to check the relevant webpage of the Law Department website, which outlines the available institutional support and tools: https://www.giurisprudenza.unito.it/do/home.pl/View?doc=/Studiare/dsa.html

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