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ME2020 Intellectual Property Law 6.0 credits

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Headings with content from the Course syllabus ME2020 (Spring 2010–) are denoted with an asterisk ( )

Content and learning outcomes

Course contents

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.

Intended learning outcomes

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.

Literature and preparations

Specific prerequisites

The student should have at least 150 ECTS.

Recommended prerequisites

At least 150 hp and a basic course in industrial management.

Equipment

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Literature

To be announced at the start of the course

Examination and completion

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

Grading scale

A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Examination

  • TEN2 - Examination, 4.0 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
  • ÖVN1 - Excerise, 2.0 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

Other requirements for final grade

Written exam, participation in the seminars. The grade is dependent on the result on the exam.

Opportunity to complete the requirements via supplementary examination

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Opportunity to raise an approved grade via renewed examination

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Examiner

Ethical approach

  • All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
  • In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
  • In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.

Further information

Course room in Canvas

Registered students find further information about the implementation of the course in the course room in Canvas. A link to the course room can be found under the tab Studies in the Personal menu at the start of the course.

Offered by

Main field of study

Industrial Management

Education cycle

Second cycle

Add-on studies

ME2021 Advanced Patens Law.

Contact

Bo Karlson, (bo.karlson@indek.kth.se)

Supplementary information

Established 2004-02-19.

Replaces 4D1052.