Module E: Innovation Process and Patenting

• Inovations and related terms
• Type of Intellectual property
• Intellectual property office (Slovenian, European, World)
• Copyright law
• Industrial property (patent, industrial design, trademark, geographical indication)
• Topographies of integrated circuits
• Innovations and EU research projects

Objective of the course is learning of basics in inovation process, ways of protecting intelectual properties (industrial property, copyright), economic and lawful aspects of intelectual property rights (what, where, when, how), achieving and managing research&development projects, which results could be protected from the aspect of intelectual property.

During the lectures all concepts of intellectual property protection and development and innovation activities are presented. In the framework of laboratory exercises, students get acquainted with the patent application. At the end of the semester, students present a selected topic in the seminar work related to the protection of intellectual property.