ID424 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
Course Code: | 1250424 |
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
ECTS Credit: | 5.0 |
Department: | Industrial Design |
Language of Instruction: | English |
Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
Course Coordinator: | Lecturer SALİH BEKTAŞ |
Offered Semester: | Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, students will:
- Have general information about basic concepts of IP rights
- Understand the common characteristics of the different IP right categories according to subject-matter, function and scope of protection
- Understand the importance of IP in the knowledge economy and the main social and economic goals of IP laws
- Identify different forms of IP and decide what IP to protect at each stage of the innovation cycle
- Understand the importance of enforcing IPRs in legal aspects
- Identify different forms in which IP may provide revenue
- Be able to make preliminary search in relevant IP databases and use the retrieved information for technical and business aspects of IP rights
- Understand the role of IP management and recognize the value of IP as a strategic tool for business and entrepreneurship
- Distinguish what aspects of a designer's work can be protected and how (designs, copyright, patents, trade marks)
Course Content
Definitions and protection methods of intellectual and industrial property. (Copyright, patent, utility model, industrial design, trademark) National and international dimensions of this issue with related laws, codes in force.
Course Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, students should be able to:
- Differentiate between the various categories of IP protection
- Explain how rights on patents, trade marks, copyright, designs and trade secrets arise and describe the legal and administrative procedures for obtaining protection for them
- Identify the most appropriate option for protection of IP rights for the innovation process or product concerned
- Indicate different ways of generating revenue using IP, including different business models for exploiting IP
- Use their own knowledge for obtaining protection for IP rights
- Make their own searches for IP rights in relevant databases
- Explain the importance of performing IP assessments in the current economic environment
- Anticipate some of the issues which they may come across in their future career or future research projects, such as assessing IP, ownership of IP, etc.
- Find IP information and understand its value as a source of technical and strategic information
- Identify and differentiate between acts of infringement relating to the principal categories of IPRs
- Determine whether a design qualifies for IP protection and setting up an IP-based business.
Program Outcomes Matrix
Level of Contribution | |||||
# | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
1 | Creative problem defining and solving. | ✔ | |||
2 | Planning and managing the design process. | ✔ | |||
3 | Presenting and conveying design solutions orally, in written and visually (2D and 3D). | ✔ | |||
4 | Planning, managing and evaluating the results of design-focused research. | ✔ | |||
5 | Contributing to the design of products in order to raise the life quality of the society. | ✔ | |||
6 | Generating and applying knowledge to serve sustainable production and life. | ✔ | |||
7 | Competency in intellectual and industrial property rights. | ✔ | |||
8 | Awareness of and sensitivity towards societal, institutional, individual and contextual differences. | ✔ | |||
9 | Awarenes of social and cultural facts and continuous change. | ✔ | |||
10 | Competency in economic, industrial and technological developments. | ✔ | |||
11 | Continuous development of professional knowledge, skills and approaches. | ✔ | |||
12 | Competency in the processes and actions in professional life. | ✔ | |||
13 | Adaptation to the different working environments and processes that the profession necessitates, and contributing to the development and improvement of these environments. | ✔ | |||
14 | Ability in working within teams. | ✔ | |||
15 | Giving importance to interdisciplinary interactions. | ✔ |
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution