Long name	Industrial property protection
Approving CModule	ERMK_MaET, XIM_MaTIN
Responsible	Ladrière
Level	Master
Semester in the year	summer semester
Duration	Semester
Hours in self-study	undefined
ECTS	5
Professors	Ladrière
Requirements	undefined
Language	German
Separate final exam	No

Types of industrial property rights, significance for companies and inventors, significance of employee invention law and inventor personality law, prerequisites for protection, term of industrial property rights, structure of an application, life cycle from application to patent, subsequent applications, examination and opposition procedures, national, European and international applications, utility models, trademarks, design, law on the protection of secrets, professional field of patent engineer.

Carry out a patent search; determine the relevant type of protective right for a given case; be able to correctly file an application with regard to its formal structure; weigh up the advantages and disadvantages of national, European and international applications in a specific application; check the validity of a patent; develop a basic IP strategy.

Type	Attendance (h/Wk.)
Lecture	2

Types of industrial property rights, significance for companies and inventors, significance of employee invention law and inventor personality law, prerequisites for protection, term of industrial property rights, structure of an application, life cycle from application to patent, subsequent applications, examination and opposition procedures, national, European and international applications, utility models, trademarks, design, law on the protection of secrets, professional field of patent engineer.

Carry out a patent search; determine the relevant type of protective right for a given case; be able to correctly file an application with regard to its formal structure; weigh up the advantages and disadvantages of national, European and international applications in a specific application; check the validity of a patent; develop a basic IP strategy.

Type	Attendance (h/Wk.)
Seminar	2