Research project and Industrial property

Objectives

Industrial Property

At the end of this module, the student must have understood and will be able to explain (main concepts) :

Major differences between intellectual and industrial properties. He must be able to initiate protections by himself by addressing the right people with regard to his inventive activity and his need for protection. He will have to know the costs and limitations.

The student must be able to :

- describe the different types of protections available

- define the legal framework of each protection and the modalities of application

- understand the different protection strategies associated with patents, disclosure or secrecy

- to know and virtually identify the corporate strategies associated with the defense and exploitation of industrial property : "Patent Pool" strategy. Know how to explain the advantages and disadvantages of each strategy

-know the major protection organizations, their respective roles in order to make good decisions about their protection needs

-know how to initiate the steps to protect an invention, a brand, a drawing, a model, a domain name, a book, a musical composition, a computer program, or any other discovery. Know the time, costs, temporal and geographical limitations.

Form of assessment

The evaluation of outcome prior learning is made as a continuous training during the semester. According ot the teaching, the assessment will be different: as a written exam, an oral exam, a record, a written report, peers review...