Law school · Intermediate
Intellectual Property: A Survey
Patents, trade marks, copyright, designs and confidence — what each protects, what it does not, and how the rights overlap in practice.
What you get
An Incredible Attorneys platform credential. It is not a qualification recognised by any bar or regulator, and does not entitle the holder to practise.
- Hours
- 24
- Pass mark
- 60%
- Languages
- en
- Modules
- 5
Syllabus
- 1 Patents Novelty, inventive step, and what cannot be patented.
- 2 Trade marks and passing off Registration, infringement, and unregistered goodwill.
- 3 Copyright Subsistence, authorship, term and permitted acts.
- 4 Designs and confidence Registered and unregistered design, and trade secrets.
- 5 Enforcement and territoriality Rights are national; supply chains are not.
What this covers
Each area links to the statutes and judgments that actually govern it, in whichever jurisdiction you are working in.