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Terminated in academic year 2012/2013

Intellectual Property Law

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 119-0324/02
Abbreviation PDV
Course title Intellectual Property Law
Credits 7
Coordinating department Department of Law
Course coordinator prof. JUDr. Vladimír Týč, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW – system, status within Czech law. Infringement of state to intellectual property law.
2. Copyright Law I – term, sorts, copyright establishment. Copyright content. Duration of copyright.
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 – advertising on TV and Radio, consumer protection and adds, adds within the private data protection.
13. Advertising Law III – unfair competition, ethical self-regulation of adds and its means. Advertising Council and Ethical code.
14. Actual topic.

Literature

BENTLY, Lionel, SHERMAN Brad, GANGJEE Dev and Phillip JOHNSON. Intellectual property law. 5. Revised edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 1520 s. ISBN 9780198769958 
JANKŮ, Martin. EU business law: learning text. Praha: Vysoká škola finanční a správní, 2019. Educopress. ISBN 978-80-7408-186-6 .
POLLICINO, Oreste, Giovanni Maria RICCIO a Marco BASSINI, ed. Copyright and fundamental rights in the digital age: a comparative analysis in search of a common constitutional ground. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020. ISBN 978-1-78811-387-8 .

Advised literature

ADAMS, Stephen. Information sources in patents. 4th completely revised edition. Berlin: De Gruyter Saur, 2020 ISBN 978-3-11-055006-1 .
DREYFUSS, Rochelle Cooper a Justine PILA, ed. The Oxford handbook of intellectual property law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. ISBN 978-0-19-875845-7 .
OKEDIJI, Ruth L., ed. Copyright law in an age of limitations and exceptions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. ISBN 978-1-107-13237-5 .