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Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Intellectual Property Law

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 119-0324/06
Abbreviation PDV
Course title Intellectual Property Law
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Law
Course coordinator prof. JUDr. Vladimír Týč, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction, system of this subject and context in the Czech law. Sources and the subjects of intellectual property law. State position and state administration in this field. Protection of personal data, natural person and legal person. Trade company and its protection. Protection of trade secred and know-how.
2. Copyright I. - Author´s work - term, marks, types, exclusions. Author and author´s work creation. Content of copyright. Exclusive personality rights. Exclusive property rights.
3. Copyright II. Author´s work usage. Free usage. Legal licence. Duration of property law. Free works.
4. Copyright III. Licence contract. Exclusive and non-exklusive licence.
Publishing licence. Sub-licence and its transfer. Special types of author´s work and special conditions of its usage.
5. Copyright IV. Rights connected to copyright. Rights to art performance. Rights to recordings. Rights to radio and TV broadcasting. Publisher´s right. Special rights to database.
6. Copyright V. Protection of copyrights and rights connected to it. Customs in connections with rights protection. Collective administration of rights. State supervision.
7. Trademark I. Term. Register. legal capacity to be recorded in the register. types of trademarks. Trademark owner.
8. Trademark II. Procedure of recording. Transfer and changeover of trademark. Protecting period.
Rights termination. Licence.
9. Indication of origin and geographical marking. Differences of trademark authorization régime. Qualification to be recorded. Trademark users. recording procedure. Usage of trademark.
10. Invention. Term and subjects of patent law. Procedure of patent granting.
Invention protection. Licence and forced licence. Other industrial rights. Utility example. Industrila example. Improvement proposal. Origin. Topography
of semiconductor products. Cultivation law.
11. Intangibles in international trade. International legal regulation connected to the intangibles. Sources. Their protection. Means of internationl protection.
12. Advertising law I. Term. Public regulation of advertisement. State supervision and its bodies. Responsibility for lawless advertisement. Administration wrongs and sanctions.
13. Advertising law II. Add regulation as for private law. Unfair competition. Court protection against unfair competition. Ethical self-regulation of advertisement and its means.

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 .