LAWS3339 Intellectual Property: Creative Rights

The availability of units in Semester 1, 2, etc. was correct at the time of going to press but may be subject to change.

Credit: 6 points Availability: Semester 2 Old unit code: 200.339

Outcomes: Students are able to (1) demonstrate proficiency in analysing and solving hypothetical problems involving intellectual property disputes; (2) communicate their comprehension of intellectual property concepts by being able to follow and construct sound legal arguments; (3) express their ideas coherently and logically in a written form; (4) describe and critique issues of policy and theory in relation to the regulation of intellectual property; and (5) critically analyse the strengths and weaknesses of law and policy in the area of intellectual property, proposing solutions to problems affecting the protection and dissemination of creative effort.

Content: This unit focuses on the legal issues relating to creative rights in intellectual property. The law relating to copyright is the primary focus of the unit, with current issues in design and patent law also covered.

Assessment: This comprises a 1000-word reflection piece (15 per cent), a 3000-word mid-semester assignment (30 per cent), attendance at fortnightly seminars (5 per cent) and a final examination (50 percent).

Supplementary assessment is not available in this unit except in the case of a bachelor's pass degree student who has obtained a mark of 45 to 49 and is currently enrolled in this unit, and it is the only remaining unit that the student must pass in order to complete their course.

Unit Co-ordinator(s): Jani McCutcheon

Location: UWA (Crawley)

Mode: on-campus

Unit Rules:

Prerequisites: LAWS1130 Legal Process

Advisable prior study: LAWS2204 Property I, LAWS2205 Property II and LAWS3338 Introduction to Intellectual Property

Incompatibility: Students who have completed the unit 200.382 Industrial and Intellectual Property 382 up to the year 2000 (inclusive) are not permitted to enrol in this unit.

Contact hours—lectures: 2 hrs per week; seminars: 2 hrs per fortnight

Unit Web Page: http://www.uwa.edu.au/page/103470

Note: Some unit web pages are still under construction and will be available in 2009.

Texts

All the relevant statutes and treaties are conveniently located in the Butterworths Intellectual Property Collection 2008.

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Books and other material wherever listed may be subject to change. Book lists relating to 'Preliminary Reading', 'Recommended Reading' and 'Textbooks' are, in most cases, available at the University Co-operative Bookshop (from early January) and appropriate administrative offices for students to consult. For first-year units the Bookshop will endeavour to make available photocopies of book lists for individual units. Books marked with an asterisk (*) are available in paperback.

Unit Resources

Unit Co-ordinator

Jani McCutcheon