1. SylabUZ
2. Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Automatics
3. winter term 2018/2019
4. WIEiA - oferta ERASMUS / Automatic Control and Robotics - First-cycle Erasmus programme
5. Protection of intellectual property

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Protection of intellectual property - course description

Aim of the course

- introduction of students with basic ethical, legal and economical issues connected with performing automatics works
- student's ability to properly identify and solve dilemmas related to the profession of automatics

Prerequisites

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Scope

Lecture content. The concept of intellectual property. The issue of intellectual property at law. Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property. The concept of industrial property. Patent. Right of protection. Right of registration.

Legislation on the protection of industrial property in Poland. The requirements to obtain a patent on the invention. Solutions devoid of patentability. Protection of utility models, industrial designs, topographies of integrated circuits. Protection of trademarks and service marks. Procedure before the Polish Patent Office. Application documentation requirements for invention, utility model, industrial design, trade mark. Contentious procedure. Appeals against decisions of the Polish Patent Office. Licenses in trade of industrial property rights.

License: full, limited, exclusive, non-exclusive, open, implied, cross-license, compulsory. Patent information. Patent Classification. INID codes. Internet database of patent information. Patent research. State of the art study. Study of the patentability. Obtain protection abroad. WIPO. PCT - Patent Cooperation Treaty. The European Patent Convention. OHIM. Madrid Agreement. TRIPS. Other international agreements for the protection of industrial property. Protection against unfair competition. Acts of unfair competition. Competition and consumer protection.

Copyright law. Bern Convention. Geneva Convention. Other international agreements on copyright. Copyright property. Personal copyright. Related Rights. Allowed for personal use. Allowed for public use. Criminal penalties for copyright infringement. Protection of computer programs. Protected subject matter. An entity of copyright to a computer program. Duplication of the program. Ending the use of computer program. Restrictions on property rights related to computer software. Access to the ideas and principles contained in the computer program. Rules of using of the Internet. Netiquette. Violations of distinctive signs on the Internet. The use of email for commercial purposes. Other dishonest behavior in cyberspace. Agreement on cybercrime.

Teaching methods

Lecture: conventional lecture, consultations

Learning outcomes and methods of theirs verification

Outcome description	Outcome symbols	Methods of verification	The class form

Assignment conditions

Passing grade of the lecture depends on positive ratings of oral or written colloquiums carried out at least once a semester. 

Recommended reading

Groves P.: Intellectual Property Rights and their Valuation. A Handbook for Bankers, Companies and Their Advisers. Woodhead Publishing. 1997.

Kotarba W.: Ochrona własności przemysłowej w gospodarce polskiej w dostosowaniu do wymogów Unii Europejskiej i Światowej Organizacji Handlu. Wyd. Instytut Organizacji i Zarządzania we Przemyśle „ORGMASZ”, Warszawa 2000.

Sobczak J.: Prawo autorskie i prawa pokrewne, Wyd. Polskie Wydawnictwo Prawnicze Warszawa - Poznań 2000.

Golat K., Golat R.: Prawo komputerowe, Wyd. Prawnicze Sp. z o.o., Warszawa 1998.

Miklasiński Z.: Prawo własności przemysłowej, komentarz. Wyd. UPRP Warszawa 2001.

Podrecki P. i inni: Prawo Internetu, Wydawnictwo Prawnicze LexisNexis, Warszawa 2004.

Waglowski P.: Prawo w sieci. Zarys regulacji internetu, Wyd. HELION, Gliwice 2005.

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Notes

Modified by dr hab. inż. Wojciech Paszke, prof. UZ (last modification: 02-05-2020 07:58)