Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Faculty of Law :: Law

Versao Portuguesa

DIREITO DA PROPRIEDADE INDUSTRIAL - 2016/2017

4º curricular year
Semestralidade: 1st semester
ECTS: 6

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutor Alberto Estima
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutor Alberto Estima

Class type and School hours

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

Provide the students with the essential information about all industrial property rights and its growing juridical and economical importance.

Specific Aims/Objectives

Knowledge of the industrial property rights’ legal regime: patentes, utility models, designs, trademarks, logotypes and designations of origin and geographical indications.

Skills to be acquired

Being able to manage the industrial property rights’ legal regime, apply the Industrial Property Code, as well as other legislation and international conventions.

Teaching Procedures

Methodology: theoretical teaching of the industrial property rights and solve practical problems:

Programme

1 Industrial Property rights: notion, object and domain.
2 National and international sources.
3. Multilateralism and bilateralism on the international conventions about industrial property rights. The trade related aspects about intellectual property (TRIPS) and other international conventions.
4.European titles of Industrial property.
5. Industrial Property rights’ fundamentals.
6. Industrial Property rights’ juridical nature (summary).
7. Recognition of the industrial property rights.
8. Assignment and licensing.
9. Extinction.
10 Patents.
11. Utility models.
12. Design.
13. Trademarks.
14. Logotypes.
15. Designations of origin and geographical indications
16. New industrial property rights.
17. Industrial property and new comunication and information tecnologies.
18. Unfair competition.

Evaluation Type

Evaluation: two written exams.

Teaching Resources

Bibliografy and concrete problems.

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Distintive signs, industrial creations.

Main Bibliography

Author Gonçalves, Luís Couto
Title Manual de direito industrial – propriedade industr
Edition 6.ª
Place Coimbra
Editor Almedina
Year 2016
Author Almeida, Alberto Ribeiro de
Title A autonomia jurídica da denominação de origem
Edition 1.ª
Place Coimbra
Editor Coimbra Editora
Year 2010
Author Silva, Pedro Sousa e
Title Direito Industrial – Noções Fundamentais
Edition 1.ª
Place Coimbra
Editor Coimbra Editora
Year 2011