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Course Outline - Intellectual Property Law

This course covers key aspects of intellectual property law including copyright, trademarks, patents, confidential information, and related economic and policy issues. The course will examine topics such as copyright protections for different types of works, ownership and infringement issues, permitted uses of copyrighted works, an overview of patent requirements and rights, and introductions to trademarks, industrial design protections, trade secrets, and technology transfer practices.

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Course Outline - Intellectual Property Law

This course covers key aspects of intellectual property law including copyright, trademarks, patents, confidential information, and related economic and policy issues. The course will examine topics such as copyright protections for different types of works, ownership and infringement issues, permitted uses of copyrighted works, an overview of patent requirements and rights, and introductions to trademarks, industrial design protections, trade secrets, and technology transfer practices.

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GB2114 Intellectual Property Law

Course outline
This course covers the following: Aspects of the law of copyright, unregistered and registered
trademarks, confidential information and patents; analysis of particular issues in the law and policy
of intellectual property, such as internet 'piracy' and access to medicines in developing countries;
economic implications to businesses.
Course outline
1. Overview of intellectual property
2. Copyright
- The Copyright Act 2005, History, Structure of the Copyright Act
3. Copyright- Types of works Protected
- Excluded Works
- Copyright in Literary, Dramatic, Musical and Artistic Works
1. Section 1(1)
2. ‘Work’
3. ‘Author’
4. Conditions for Recognition of copyright
5. General Principles
6. Types of works protected.
- Computer works

4. Copyright- Ownership
1. Ownership by author
2. Works made in the course of employment
3. Joint authorship
4. State’s copyright

5. Assignment & licences


6. Moral Rights
7. Infringements - Infringements of Economic Rights & Moral Rights Infringement
8. Uses not constituting infringement
1. Fair Dealing Use
2. Other Permitted uses

Patents
9. Historical Background to Patents
• What is a Patent
• Why have Patents
• Patent vs. Trade secret
• Cost of Patents
o Transaction costs
o Monopoly costs

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10. Type of Patents
Utility Patent/Design Patent/Plant Patent

11. Patentability requirements/Element of a Patent


Cover information/Specification/Claims
• What/Who is protected
• Protectable subject matter
• Ownership and Rights conferred
• Novelty and anticipation
• Disclosure and enablement
• Non-Obviousness
12. Infringement and Remedies

Trademarks and unfair competition:


13. Introductory overview of trademark law
• Purposes of Trademark Law
• The Lanham Act
• Distinctiveness
• The Spectrum of Distinctiveness
• Descriptiveness and Secondary Meaning
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14. Exclusions from Registration (overview)
• Scandalous, Disparaging, and Deceptive
• Geographic
• Name Marks
• Incontestability
• Geographic Limits on Rights
• Limits on Common-Law Rights: Tea Rose
• Limits on Registered Rights
• Trademark rights and protection,
• National and international administration of works and registration,
• General principles of unfair competition law,
• The economic tort of passing off.

15. Industrial design: (overview)

16. Confidential information and trade secrets: overview


• The nature of protectable confidential information and its obligations,
• Employee relationships
• Defense and remedies.

17. Transfer of Technology: (overview)


• The concept of technology transfer,
• licensing agreements including compulsory licensing,
• Ghanaian law and practices of technology transfers.

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