| International
and comparative law and policy of patents, trade secrets
and related
rights |
| Section A: Introduction and regional
agreements on patents |
| · Examination
of the concepts |
| · Survey
of the historical development of industrial property rights |
| · Regional
agreements |
| Section B: Comparative patents |
| · Comparative
study of the features of the patent systems of the USA, Germany
and Japan |
| · Industrial
property litigation in the major countries, including the nature
of infringement actions and remedies |
| Section C: Patents and the World Trade
Organization |
| · Introduction
to the patent provisions of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPs) agreement
and their impact |
| · WTO
TRIPs dispute settlement on patent issues |
| · International
patent enforcement |
| Section D: Special topics in patents
|
| · Biotechnology |
| · Plant
variety protection |
| · Varieties
of ownership |
Sequence:
Section A first, Section D last. |
Textbooks:
Lionel Bently and Brad Sherman, Intellectual Property Law
2nd ed (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2004), ISBN: 0199264309
Duncan Matthews, Globalising Intellectual Property Rights:
The TRIPS Agreement (London: Routledge, 2002),
ISBN: 9780415406581 |
