Class schedule:
14, 17, 21, 24, 28, 31 March 2023
Tuesday 8.30-11 a.m.;
Friday 8.30-10 a.m.
Training offer for the PhD in “ICT”
Training offer for the PhD in Industrial and Environmental Engineering
Course: Intellectual Property Protection
Effort: 15 hours
- Objectives:
This course examines Intellectual Property laws by means of a comparative approach, focusing on international and domestic rules and proceedings, in order to provide engineering students with an overview on a central topic in their prospective career. The course will deeply touch on existing intellectual property laws, which encourage and protect intellectual goods, usually for a limited period of time, and their main output: to provide an economic incentive for design and creation, preventing illegal copying, and stimulating innovation and technological progress.
There are various rights within the broad domain of intellectual property, the most well-known being copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets, which will be analyzed in class.
- Prerequisites:
None
- Course Syllabus:
Handouts provided in class.
- Teaching Methods:
Classroom lessons, teacher’s notes.
- Verification of learning:
Oral discussion on the topics examined in class.
- Expected results:
The purpose of the course is to clarify students’ understanding on: 1) IP laws; 2) Copyright protection; 3) Patents; 4) Trademarks; 5) Trade secrets; 6) Non-disclosure agreements; 7) The World Intellectual Property Organization and its Treaties.
- Teacher:
Name:
Isabella Ferrari, Professor of Comparative Private Law.
Brief CV:
After studying, researching and working abroad for a decade, at Harvard Law School, Peking University, Tokyo University, London School of Economics, for some years now prof. Ferrari has been dealing with the Law of New Technologies in a comparative perspective at the Department of Engineering ‘Enzo Ferrari’ of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, with special focus on civil liability issues for damages caused by the use of autonomous systems and digital technologies in the automotive and robotics sectors.
Contacts:
isabella.ferrari@unimore.it
http://personale.unimore.it/rubrica/dettaglio/iferrari
