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BUS 4310 - Legal Aspects of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
Have you ever wondered what patents, trademarks, copyright, and trade secrets are and how they work? This course will focus on topics important and interesting to anyone involved with managing or creating technology. The goal is to provide students with an understanding of fundamental legal issues pertinent to technology creation and management. The course focuses on a wide range of dynamic issues regarding intellectual property rights (i.e., patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets) and addresses strategic decision making such as how to protect and manage intellectual property individuals and in teams. A seminar approach will be followed with student participation expected.  (prereq: none)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Communicate the basics of patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secret law
  • Compare and contrast intellectual property prosecution and litigation
  • Demonstrate the basic nature of the legal system including the court structure and the role of intellectual property lawyers
  • Analyze intellectual property within an employee/employer context
  • Examine the basics of intellectual property management from a business perspective
  • Perform a prior art search
Prerequisites by Topic
  • None
Course Topics
  • Introduction to intellectual property
  • Introduction to patents
  • Elements for patentability
  • How to read information from a modern U.S. patent
  • The patent process
  • The patent application
  • Examination of the patent application
  • Design and plant patents
  • Enforcement of patents
  • Patent marking
  • Ownership and transfer of patent rights
  • Copyrights
  • Trademarks/cybersquatting
  • Employment contracts and non-compete restrictions
  • Engineer as expert witness
  • Trade secrets
  • IP management and commercialization
  • Business factors controlling litigation strategies
  • Entrepreneurship law
Coordinator
John Osmanski, J.D.


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