Summer Schools - Content and Structure
The following topics are generally covered in most summer school programs:
- WIPO and its Role in Promoting Creativity and Innovation
- Selected Contemporary Issues in the Field of Trademarks
- International and Regional Trademark Systems
- Geographical Indications: The International Landscape and Current Issues
- Designs Protection and its Interface with Other Intellectual Property Fields
- Internet Domain names and Alternative Dispute Resolution, including Illustration of Cases
- Trademarks and the Internet: Issues and Challenges
- Branding – Case Study
- International and Regional Patent Systems
- Selected Contemporary Issues in the Field of Patents
- The Use of Patent Information
- Protection of Trade Secrets: Current Issues
- Selected Cases on Patents and Biotechnology
- International Protection of Copyright and Related Rights
- Selected Contemporary Issues in the Field of Copyright and Related Rights
- Limitations and Exceptions of Copyright, including Access to Copyright Works for Visually Impaired Persons
- Unfair Competition and IP
- Economics of IP
- IP Management: A Practical Approach
- IP Valuation
- Transfer of Technology and Licensing
- Simulation Exercises on Licensing Negotiations
- Creative Industries and IP; Copyright Licensing
- Protection of New Plant Varieties, including the UPOV Convention
- IP and Biodiversity: International Landscape and Current Issues
Panel discussions:
- IP and Public Health – Issues and Challenges.
- IP, Green Technology and Climate Change: Issues and Challenges
- Selected Cases on Enforcement of IP rights (IPRs)
Group discussions:
- Technology Transfer in the Field of IP
- Copyright in the Digital Age
- Open Innovation
- Brands and Branding