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Undergraduate | CUR-BLW370 | 2023
Business Intellectual Property
Cover copyright issues such as infringements and moral rights. Look closely at Australian and international policies. Interrogate franchising and licensing practices. Review the approaches businesses can take to protect their intellectual property.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 13 weeks
Start dates
- 27 Feb 2023
HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- explain the international and domestic policies that underpin the protection of intellectual property rights
- explain the impact of international and domestic cultural perspectives on the protection of intellectual property rights
- analyse and interpret the relevant statutory and common law regimes that protect intellectual property rights
- apply relevant legal concepts and principles to analyse and solve hypothetical problems or case studies.
- Introduction
- Trade Mark
- Passing Off, Consumer Protection and Domain Names
- Confidential Information
- Patents
- Copyright I (Basic Concepts and Subsistence of Copyright)
- Copyright II (Exploitation, Infringement, Exceptions and Remedies)
- Copyright III (Digital Agenda, Moral and Related Rights) and Designs
- Commercializing IP
This subject provides an overview of copyright, design, patent and trademark legislation and an examination of how businesses can protect their intellectual property. It also introduces the common law torts of breach of confidence and passing off and some of the cultural implications associated with intellectual property rights.
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- Problem based assignment (35%)
- Test (20%)
- Written Assessment (45%)
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Entry requirements
Prior study
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Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Additional materials
Study load
0.125 EFTSL
This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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What to study next?
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following degrees
UndergraduateCUR-BLW-DEG
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