MVD011K Legal Protection of Design

Faculty of Law
Spring 2012
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. JUDr. Pavel Koukal, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Daniel Grimm (assistant)
Guaranteed by
doc. JUDr. Pavel Koukal, Ph.D.
Institute of Legal Skills and Innovation of Studies – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Bc. Martin Pěnčík
Supplier department: Institute of Legal Skills and Innovation of Studies – Faculty of Law
Timetable
each even Wednesday 11:10–12:40 211
  • Timetable of Seminar Groups:
MVD011K/01: Mon 27. 2. to Fri 18. 5. each odd Wednesday 11:10–12:40 211, P. Koukal
MVD011K/02: No timetable has been entered into IS. P. Koukal
Prerequisites (in Czech)
SOUHLAS
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
  • Law (programme PrF, M-PPV)
Course objectives
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the issue of legal protection of design. The course is designed not only for law students, but for all subjects of the MU, in which attention is focused on the creation, analysis and theory of design. After completing of this course, students should obtain basic information about the legal protection of designs in the European Union, USA, Japan, including international protection of the Hague Agreement.
Attention is focused on understanding the essence of the design protection (registration principle, the examination principle, informal methods of protection), the form of design protection (copyright, unregistered design rights, registered designs, trademarks, unfair competition), the prevention of protection (the ability to search in online databases), ways of dealing with rights (transfer of rights, licenses), as well as to promote the rights of protection obtained.
Syllabus
  • 1) Design - notion, function, history
  • 2) Copyright protection of the design in the Czech Republic
  • 3) The right of registered industrial designs in the Czech Republic
  • 4) The legal protection of designs in the European Union
  • 5) International protection of designs
  • 6)+7) Excursion to the Industrial Property Office
  • 8) The design protection and the unfair competition
  • 9) The design protection in Germany, the United Kingdom and France
  • 10) The design Protection in the U.S. and Japan
  • 11) Transfer of rights, licenses
  • 12) Law enforcement (judicial protection, the customs authorities, the Czech Trade Inspection)
Literature
  • Rýdl, Jan.: Průmyslový vzor a zpracování národní přihlášky průmyslového vzoru. Praha 2008
  • NETUŠIL, Jan and Zuzana de KORVER. Sporná řízení před Úřadem průmyslového vlastnictví. 1. vyd. Praha: Metropolitní univerzita Praha, 2008, 106 s. ISBN 9788086855394. info
  • HORÁČEK, Roman and Jiří MACEK. Sbírka správních a soudních rozhodnutí ve věcech průmyslového vlastnictví. Vyd. 1. V Praze: C.H. Beck, 2007, xii, 287. ISBN 9788071795377. info
  • HAJN, Petr, Roman HORÁČEK and Karel ČADA. Práva k průmyslovému vlastnictví. 1. vyd. Praha: C.H. Beck, 2005, xxiv, 424. (Právnické učebnice). ISBN 8071798797. info
  • KNÍŽEK, Milan and Karel ČADA. Průmyslové vlastnictví a licence v tržním hospodářství. Vyd. 3. dopl. Praha: Úřad průmyslového vlastnictví, 2001, 162 s. ISBN 80-7282-013-3. info
  • WIPO intellectual property handbook: policy, law and use. Edited by Kamil Idris. Geneva: WIPO, 2001, viii, 460. ISBN 9280510048. info
Teaching methods
The course consists of lectures and seminars. Students non-lawyers who are involved in creating a design, are expected to bring their creations, as well as questions and problems which should be dealt with law students. The seminars are intended to the active participation of students through their own presentations.
Law Students: legal protection of designs in countries outside the EU, the presentation of individual form of protection applied to a specific case.
Students creating design: presentation of their own creations, the way they work, the definition of problems they are confronted in their work.
Lectures are supplemented with power-point presentations available in the Information System of Masaryk University. The course emphasizes the skill ability in a form of law clinic.
Assessment methods
colloquium; the presumption of colloquium is the active participation on seminars, conducting a presentation, demonstrating basic knowledge of the legal protection of designs.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2012, recent)
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