Class Intelectual Property and Protection of Innovation

This UC aims to grant knowledge in the area of IP, specifically in patents, allowing the student to identify and protect innovations through the several available types of rights, enabling: - to recognize and understand the different existing types of rights for protecting Innovation, its features and suitability (e.g. patents, trademarks, SPCs) - to recognize and understand the conditions to be fulfilled to protect a certain innovation

1. Introduction and Context: Intellectual Property, Industrial Property and using IP
1.1 Presentation and introduction to the course, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
1.2 Context: Copyright and Related Rights, Artistic and Literary Works
1.3 Context: Industrial Property: Inventions, Aesthetic creations and Commercial Signs
1.4 Basic notions for reading and interpreting relevant law
2. Inventions: Conditions and means for protection
2.1 Introduction to patents (entitlement, scope, effects, patentablesubject matter)
2.2 Patentability requirements
2.3 Priority and other relevant conditions
2.4 Protection routes
2.5 Search and its relevance
2.6 Patenting in Chemistry and Biotech areas
3. Other IPRs
3.1 Trademarks and associated rights
3.2 Design
4. Using IPRs
4.1 IPRs as an object of property
4.2 Enforcement of IPRs
4.3 Managing IPRs
 

The present curricular unit also comprises personal and tutorial study, wherein the tutorial component comprises assignments to be accomplished by the student.

The didactic support material is made available through the online Moodle platform. Evaluation is carried out through the regime of continuous assessment or final exam.

Continuous assessment regime: The final grade results from the average of the following components: interest in the subject matter (10%), two written assignments, each contributing with 30% (Component B) and one test, contributing with 30 %. The final grade = A (10%) + B1 (30%) + B2 (30%) + C (30%). Working students which opt for continuous assessment shall comply with the above requirements.

Final exam regime: evaluation through final exam is applied to students which opt for it, comprising the whole of the taught contents.

• (2008) WIPO Intellectual Property Handbook , Genebra: Organização Mundial da Propriedade Intelectual (OMPI).
• (2012) Sousa e Silva, P. Direito Industrial: Noções Fundamentais . Lisboa: Coimbra Editora.
• (2008) Código da Propriedade Industrial . Lisboa: Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial (INPI)
• (2015) The European Patent Co nvention . Munique: Instituto Europeu de Patentes (EPO)
• (2015) Guidelines for Examination in the European Patent Office . Munique: Instituto Europeu de Patentes (EPO).