Ip Rights in a Global Landscape
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
This professional skills workshop aims to develop and strengthen specific cross-cutting skills. The abilities learned will help students through their education and enable them to acquire an initial toolkit of skills for a given professional field. These also include the general interpersonal and communication skills that are required for the world of work.
Expected learning outcomes
The professional skills workshop uses interactive and participative teaching methods to develop specific knowledge and skills in selected professional fields. This didactic approach aims to strengthen teamworking, knowledge sharing and problem-solving abilities, while also helping students to practically apply the skills and knowledge they have gained previously within a specific practical setting.
The workshop is open to a limited number of participants, enabling the organisation and monitoring of individual and group work so as to create the best possible opportunities for students to apply their knowledge and understanding gained.
Participants will gain an awareness of the workshop's underlying themes, giving them a grounding from which to form their own personal opinion on the topic at hand.
The workshop is open to a limited number of participants, enabling the organisation and monitoring of individual and group work so as to create the best possible opportunities for students to apply their knowledge and understanding gained.
Participants will gain an awareness of the workshop's underlying themes, giving them a grounding from which to form their own personal opinion on the topic at hand.
Lesson period: First week
Assessment methods: Giudizio di approvazione
Assessment result: superato/non superato
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
First week
Course syllabus
The workshop will be delivered from 17 to 21 February 2025 and will be structured as follows:
1) Introduction to the workshop
What is the aim of the workshop and what will be our study approach? During this class, we will tailor the programme of the workshop on the specific interests of participants.
2) Intellectual property and industrial property
What are intellectual property and industrial property? After explaining these two concepts, we will analyse their main differences, use and protection tools.
3) Trademarks
Starting from the definition of trademark, we will delve deeper into its increasingly diversified elements (e.g. logo, sound, slogan, colour, shape).
4) Copyright
Copyright protects original works of authorship. We will analyse what copyright is, how it works and which products fall under copyright law.
5) Patents and utility models
The need to protect inventions has given rise to new concepts and problems, which we will examine in the European and non-European context.
6) Software and databases
The need to protect software and database has broaden the scope of intellectual property law, marking a turning point in the way we think about intellectual property and propelling us into the new millennium.
7) Final project
At the end of the workshop, participants will have to work on an intellectual property case similar to the ones they may have to face in their future career.
Workshop timetable
17 February 2025, from 2.30 pm to 6.30 pm, room P5
18 February 2025, from 2.30 pm to 6.30 pm, room P5
19 February 2025, from 2.30 pm to 6.30 pm, room P5
20 February 2025, from 2.30 pm to 6.30 pm, room P5
21 February 2025, from 2.30 pm to 6.30 pm, room P5
1) Introduction to the workshop
What is the aim of the workshop and what will be our study approach? During this class, we will tailor the programme of the workshop on the specific interests of participants.
2) Intellectual property and industrial property
What are intellectual property and industrial property? After explaining these two concepts, we will analyse their main differences, use and protection tools.
3) Trademarks
Starting from the definition of trademark, we will delve deeper into its increasingly diversified elements (e.g. logo, sound, slogan, colour, shape).
4) Copyright
Copyright protects original works of authorship. We will analyse what copyright is, how it works and which products fall under copyright law.
5) Patents and utility models
The need to protect inventions has given rise to new concepts and problems, which we will examine in the European and non-European context.
6) Software and databases
The need to protect software and database has broaden the scope of intellectual property law, marking a turning point in the way we think about intellectual property and propelling us into the new millennium.
7) Final project
At the end of the workshop, participants will have to work on an intellectual property case similar to the ones they may have to face in their future career.
Workshop timetable
17 February 2025, from 2.30 pm to 6.30 pm, room P5
18 February 2025, from 2.30 pm to 6.30 pm, room P5
19 February 2025, from 2.30 pm to 6.30 pm, room P5
20 February 2025, from 2.30 pm to 6.30 pm, room P5
21 February 2025, from 2.30 pm to 6.30 pm, room P5
Prerequisites for admission
There are no specific requirements to attend this workshop.
Teaching methods
The workshop will be delivered in-person and includes:
- frontal teaching;
- practical teaching;
- group work.
Each class is structured in two parts: a theoretical part on intellectual property rights and the tools for their protection, and a practical part.
For the practical part, students are required to use a computer.
- frontal teaching;
- practical teaching;
- group work.
Each class is structured in two parts: a theoretical part on intellectual property rights and the tools for their protection, and a practical part.
For the practical part, students are required to use a computer.
Teaching Resources
The materials used in class (texts, slides, multimedia materials and reading list) will be made available on the workshop website on myAriel.
Students who want to know more about the topics covered by the workshop can refer to the book "Brevetti e proprietà intellettuale. Manuale teorico-pratico" by Claudia Del Re and Federico Rotini (ed. Pacini Giuridica).
Students who want to know more about the topics covered by the workshop can refer to the book "Brevetti e proprietà intellettuale. Manuale teorico-pratico" by Claudia Del Re and Federico Rotini (ed. Pacini Giuridica).
Assessment methods and Criteria
Students will be assessed based on compliance with attendance requirements (min. 16 hours out of 20), participation in the workshop activities, and a group project.
Assessment criteria will be active participation in class, as well as clarity and quality of the final group project.
Assessment criteria will be active participation in class, as well as clarity and quality of the final group project.
- University credits: 3
Professional training laboratories: 20 hours
Professor:
Cristiano Luigi
Shifts:
Turno
Professor:
Cristiano LuigiProfessor(s)