An Introduction to Intellectual Property Rights in an Academic Context

Third-cycle level | 1.0 credits (HEC) | Course code: C7F5634
VT 2025
Study period: 2025-03-24 - 2025-04-13
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: The course is given in English
Application period: 2024-10-15 - 2025-02-23
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Course description

Intellectual property rights are the legal rights that protect the results of intellectual work. The right to patent is one of the most well-known rights; it protects inventions that are novel, non-obvious and have an industrial use. The focus of the course is to discuss various aspects of intellectual property rights that are essential to know for a future career both within and outside academia.

During the course, the participants will be able to learn from various stakeholders from the intellectual property rights industry. Topics include:

• your right to intellectual assets as a researcher in Sweden (teachers’ exception).

• how you can manage intellectual property rights in research collaborations, including other jurisdictions than Sweden.

• how publishing your research results can affect your legal possibilities to protect your results.

• how you can identify research groups to collaborate with using patent information.

• ethical considerations of patenting in relation to open science / access / innovation.

Requirements and Selection

Prerequisite courses, or equivalent

No prerequisite courses, or equivalent, demanded for this course. 

Selection

Selection will be based on:
1) the relevance of the course syllabus for the applicant's doctoral project (according to written motivation),
2) start date of doctoral studies (priority given to earlier start date).

Course director

Andreas Lundquist

 

Course syllabus

C7F5634

Department

Department of Learning, informatics, Management and Ethics

Doctoral programme

**Not within a doctoral programme

Type of course

**Other course

Keywords

intellectual property rights

CONTACTHanna Jansson

hanna.jansson@ki.se