Valid for: Single courses at LTH spring 2020
Decided by: PLED E
Date of Decision: 2019-03-25
Depth of study relative to the degree requirements: First cycle, has only upper-secondary level entry requirements.
Language of instruction: The course will be given in English
The economies in Europe, North America and certain states in East Asia are under transformation from producing industrial economies to knowledge economies based on Bio-science, Information technology, adventure tourism and design, where knowledge has replaced goods as products in a globalized economy. The legal protection system is known as Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). Knowledge in the scope of the Rights and their applications is a requirement for the originator and the company in order to profit from a specific knowledge.
IPR is of great importance in today’s knowledge-driven companies. The value of a patent or a trademark is for some companies much higher than the combined value of other assets and resources in the company. Therefore, it is very important that the employees, irrespective of position in the company, have a basic understanding of intellectual property. Thus, engineers with knowledge in IPR will have definitive advantage in the labor market compared to other engineers.
Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must
Competences and skills
For a passing grade the student must
Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must
The focus of the course is on Intellectual Property Right (in a global perspective) since they are considered a growing part of the value adding process in companies and at the same time are a more important mean of competition, but also related rights such as rules and regulations of marketing and competition, secrecy, and IT rights. Other issues regarding the commercialization of an invention will be discussed in the course, such as questions regarding license agreements. The course also deals with areas such as IPR-strategies for companies, how to search and utilize the information in patent databases, and how to interpret agreements relating to intellectual property.
Grading scale: TH - (U,3,4,5) - (Fail, Three, Four, Five)
Assessment: Written examination.
The examiner, in consultation with Disability Support Services, may deviate from the regular form of examination in order to provide a permanently disabled student with a form of examination equivalent to that of a student without a disability.
Course coordinator: Fredrik Edman, fredrik.edman@eit.lth.se
Course homepage: http://www.eit.lth.se/course/etia10