COMMERCIAL LAW (INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW:PATENT,TRADEMARK,COPYRIGHT)

General Foundation

After successful completion of this course, students: 1. Have proven knowledge and ability to understand issues in special field of Ιntellectual Property Law. 2. Be able to use in practice the knowledge and understanding ability acquired. 3. Be able to develop and support legal arguments and to propose practical solutions to legal problems on the special field of Ιntellectual Property Law. 4. Be able to provide accurate information on the issues of Ιntellectual Property Law towards to both qualified and non-qualified audience.

For the purposes of this course, specific topics of Intellectual Property Law have been selected and are going to be taught, with the aim to introduce students into this broad and modern area of Law and provide them with the basic knowlwedge of it. After an introductory presentation of all the (so- called) Intellectual Property Righs (IPRs), the following topics are to be analysed in depth: 1. Introduction in Intellectual Property Law (The presence and meaning of Intellectual Property Law in our everyday lives, the influence of this area of Law on the Economy and Culture and, more specifically, on competition and cultural industry as well as on the developement of creativity and innovation - The "international character" and the basic principles of Intellectual Property Law - The international Treaties and the legal framework of the EU). 2. Introduction in Trademark Law; notion and legal nature, scope and functions of the trademark - types of trademarks - the "creation" of the right on a trademark. 3. The material (legal) prerequisites for the acquisition of a trademark (subjective and objective, positive and negative prerequisites; the so-called "inadmissible" trademarks). 4. The content of the right and its economic exploitation (transfer of rights - license agreements). 5. Loss of right, infringements and violations, protecion of trademarks in the context of civil law. 6. Introduction in Patent Law - the notions of "invention" and patent - material and formal prerequisites for the acquisition of a patent. 7. The owners of the right (patentees), with emphasis on the so-called "patents made for hire" - types of patents - the legal powers of the patentee. 8. The economic exploitation of the patent (transfer, license agreements), the case of compulsory licensing - duration of the right - legal protection. 9. Introduciotn in Copyright Law and Related/Neighbouring Rights Law - The notion of "work" (the basic characteristics of the work, originality, various types of works etc.). 10. The notion of the "auhtor" (independent author/creator, the employed author, the author who works for the State -as a public servant- etc.), legal nature of Copyright and the essential characteristics of economic (pecuniary) and moral rights. 11. The economic and moral rights of the author according to Law No. 2121/1993 (presentation and in depth analysis of the specific rights). 12. Economic exploitation of the works, contracts and licenses of exploitation (exclusive and non-exclusive) - Collective Management Organisations. 13. Exceptions abd limitaions of economic rights - Legal protection of copyright.

Intellectual property, industrial property, copyright, trade mark, patent, invention, author, work of authorship, contracts of exploitation, license,

23-04-2021