SCHOOL OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: COMPLEX ISSUES EXPLAINED SIMPLY
If you are looking for new career opportunities, our course might interest you!
TKL will hold an intellectual property school in May 2022.
Intellectual property is an integral part of our lives. All businesses – from small start-ups to big corporations – need qualified advice on IP matters. Right now, there is high demand for legal practitioners specializing in IP law in Kazakhstan. IP specialization is a pathway for further development in areas of information law and media law.
Our school of intellectual property offers an opportunity to obtain a tangible career benefit for lawyers and non-law professionals alike.
The school of intellectual property will give everyone the opportunity to be a sought-after specialist right now!
Benefits of the course:
This course is designed for:
What will be the yield?
Speaker: Nataliya Shapovalova.
Time, place and format of the event
Paid participation. Concessions for students, discount rates for early registration. Early bird registration before 18 April 2022. For additional information please contact us: ns@tkl.kz, 8 701 768 64 27.
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SCHOOL OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: COMPLEX ISSUES EXPLAINED SIMPLY
COURSE PROGRAM
Day 1 (May 19, Thursday)
9.00 – 9.30
Registration.
9.30 – 10.00
Welcoming the participants.
10.00 – 11.00
Topic 1. Protection of copyright and related rights.
Objects of copyright (derivative works, composite works, copyright for complex objects, computer programs, databases). Subjects of copyright (authorship, co-authorship, copyright holders under the contract). Property and non-property rights. Limitations and exceptions to copyright. Collective rights management: new technologies for rights management. The practice of protection of rights to objects created by employees.
Rights related to copyright.
Open licenses.
11.00 – 11.30
Case study in groups.
11.30 – 12.00
Coffee and tea break.
12.00 – 13.00
Topic 2. New challenges in digital space.
New media: rights and obligations. Problems of legal regulation of the results of machine creativity. Analysis of interesting cases related to creative activity in the Internet.
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch.
14.00 – 15.00
Topic 3. Issues of patent protection: inventions, utility models and industrial designs.
Objects and subjects of patent rights. Registration of industrial property objects. Criteria for the protection of inventions, utility models and industrial designs. International and regional systems for patenting objects.
15.00 – 15.30
Case study in groups.
15.30 – 16.00
Coffee and tea break.
16.00 – 17.00
Topic 4. Protection of the right to objects of industrial property.
Protection of industrial property on the example of selected disputes in the field of patents: protection of the rights of pharmaceutical companies, disputes in IT sphere.
17.00 – 18.00
Discussion, Q&A session.
Day 2 (May 20, Friday)
10.00 – 11.00
Topic 5. Some topical issues of trademark protection.
The concept and types of trademarks. Registration of trademarks, grounds for refusal to register trademarks. Well-known trademarks. International and regional trademark registration systems. Non-use of trademarks. Trademarks and the Internet.
11.00 – 11.30
Independent in class research.
Research topic: Data as an object of civil relations. Types of data.
11.30 – 12.00
Coffee and tea break.
12.00 – 13.00
Topic 6. Domain disputes.
Domain disputes: disputes over the use of domain names similar to trademarks; content disputes on the site. Arbitration centers that resolve disputes about domain names. Arbitration Center Rules: Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy and ICANN Incorporation’s Domain Name Dispute Resolution Rules.
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch.
14.00 – 15.00
Topic 7. Other means of individualization.
Means of individualization of territories: commercial and non-commercial use of appellations of origin and geographical indications. Company name.
15.00 – 15.30
Virtual tour of the production sites of unique goods. How appellations of origin contribute to the development of tourism and traditional crafts.
15.30 – 16.00
Coffee and tea break.
16.00 – 17.00
Topic 8. Trade secrets: how to protect yourself from leakage of valuable information.
17.00 – 18.00
Discussion, Q&A session.
Day 3 (May 21, Saturday)
10.00 – 11.00
Topic 9. Protection of intellectual property.
Protection of intellectual property on the example of cases in various fields.
11.00 – 12.00
Topic 10. Disposition of intellectual property objects.
Agreement on the assignment of the exclusive right. License agreement: types, features.
12.00 – 12.30
Coffee and tea break.
12.30 – 13.00
Topic 11. Competition and intellectual property.
13.00 – 14.00
Cocktail and closing ceremony.
Day 4 (June 3, Friday)
14.00 – 16.00
Upon completion of in-person sessions, each participant will receive a notebook with tasks and cases to be solved within two weeks.
On June 3, online session will be held via Zoom to review the work.
Upon course completion, each participant will receive a certificate.
Participants who complete independent work will receive certificates indicating so.
