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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Intellectual Property Law

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 119-0310/07
Abbreviation PNS
Course title Intellectual Property Law
Credits 2
Coordinating department Department of Law
Course coordinator prof. JUDr. Vladimír Týč, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction. System, status within Czech law. Sources and subjects of intellectual property law. Status of state and state administrative organization as for this field. Protection of private data. Enterprise and its protection. Protection of trade secret and know-how.
2. Copyright Law I – term, sorts, copyright establishment. Copyright content. Duration of copyright. Exclusive personality rights. Exclusive property rights.
3. Copyright Law II - use of copyright. Free usage. Legal license. Free product.
4. Copyright Law III - license, product with special regime of usage.
5. Copyright Law IV – rights related to copyright. Art performance. Sound and sound-pictured record. Radio and TV broadcasting. Database and its producer.
6. Copyright Law V – collective administration of rights. copyright protection. State control. 7. Trademark I – register, registration, sorts of trademarks, trademark owner.
8. Trademark II – trademark registering process, license and trademark transcription. Duration of validity. Rights termination. Origin and geographical mark. Regime of trademark entitlement. Users of mark. Register, termination.
9. Invention – patent and its owner. Invention protection. License. patenting process. European patent.
10. Other industrial rights – utility design, industrial design, innovation suggestion, topography of semiconductor products, breeding rights, rights execution.
11. Advertising Law I – legal regulation, state control, responsibility for advertisement against the law.
12. Advertising Law II – legal regulation, unfair competition, judicial protection against unfair competition, ethical self-regulation and its means. Protection of trade secret and trade firm. Protection of personality, good will of the legal entity and private data.

Literature

BAINBRIDGE, I. David. Intellectual Property. Seventh Edidion. London: Pitman Publishing, 2009, 886 p. ISBN 978-1-4058-5920-2 .

Advised literature

Intellectual Property Law and Policy. Hart Publishing, 2013. ISBN 1849460574 .