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Start-up Patent Law
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:2.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:29:57
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | SBUEK_203 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 3.00 | ECTS: | 4.50 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Management; Business Management | Target Audience: | Business Management | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Jānis Zaļais | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 8 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 16 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 6 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 12 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 28 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Introduction to the Theory of Law. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To provide students with an understanding of the necessity to apply for patents on their ideas, as well as an understanding of what kind of patents are required for that. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introduction to invention. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Intellectual property. Patent law. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Licensing, fund raising. The real business plan and its development. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Essay and presentation on what has been learned so far. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Discussion on the seminar text. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Importance of presentation in innovation. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Examples of current legal situations and descriptions of actual situations. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Filling in the required documents online. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Details of Latvian patent law. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Preparing and presenting a presentation on a current topic. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | The reality of patent law from experience. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 12 | Introduction to areas of law that are binding on entrepreneurs. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Presentations on available patents, as well as patent assessment and individual reading of seminar texts, followed by analysis of key findings and ideas. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | The final grade is constituted by the sum of all grades. Knowledge will be assessed using 10-point grading system. Organisation and tasks of students’ independent work: Accumulated grade and final work - exam. Percentage of the accumulated grade consists of: activity in seminars (30%); homework (30%); exam (40%). If not all written papers are submitted, the lecturer has the right not to admit the student to the exam until all written papers are submitted. Works that are found to include signs of plagiarism or the use of other students’ work will be assessed with 0 grade. For plagiarism, a student may receive the Rector’s reprimand or be expelled from the university. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | After the completion of the course, students will be able to: • define different forms of intellectual property; • explain the necessity of a patent for start-ups; • describe how the Patent Office functions; • explain the processes required for patent applications. | ||||||||
| Skills: | After the completion of the course, students are able to: • summarise essential information about the necessary product / idea to apply for a patent; • use legal terms; • communicate with the Patent Office in a sensible manner; • present their intellectual property. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | After the completion of the course, students are able to: • prepare the necessary documents to be submitted to the Patent Office; • substantiate their views on the patent laws of different countries and the advantages of each country; • analyse whether the company needs to consider some form of intellectual property; • successfully present their views to the company representatives. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Murphy W.J., Orcutt J.L., Patent Valuation: Improving Decision Making through Analysis, 2012.g., Wiley | ||||||||
| 2 | Krajec R., Investing In Patents: Everything a Startup Investor Needs to Know, 2016.g., BlueIron Press | ||||||||
| 3 | Latvijas Republikas patentu valde - www.lrpv.gov.lv | ||||||||
| 4 | Chien V.C., Startups and Patent Trolls, 2012.g., Santa Clara University | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Key M.S., Sell Your Ideas With or Without A Patent, 2015.g., CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | ||||||||
| 2 | Schox J., Not So Obvious: An Introduction to Patent Law and Strategy, 2015.g., CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform | ||||||||
| 3 | Latvijas izgudrotaji un izgudrojumi, pieejams tiešsaitē: http://izgudrojumi.lza.lv/pat.php | ||||||||
| 4 | pieejams tiešsaitē: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers2.cfm?abstract_id=2146251 | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Patentu likums, pieejams tiešsaitē: https://likumi.lv/doc.php?id=153574 | ||||||||
| 2 | Carrier M.A., A Roadmap to the Smartphone Patent Wars and FRAND Licensing. 2012.g., pieejams tiešsaitē: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers2.cfm?abstract_id=2050743 | ||||||||
