Overview
The law protecting ownership and related rights in the expression and use of ideas, including copyright, patents, registered designs, trade marks, rights to confidential information, and actions for ‘passing off’.
About this paper
| Paper title | Intellectual Property |
|---|---|
| Subject | Law |
| EFTS | 0.1000 |
| Points | 15 points |
| Teaching period | Semester 1 (On campus) |
| Domestic Tuition Fees ( NZD ) | $820.40 |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Prerequisite
- LAWS 202 and LAWS 203 and 36 further LAWS points
- Pre or Corequisite
- Any 200-level LAWS paper not already passed
- Restriction
- LAWS 444
- Limited to
- LLB, LLB(Hons)
- Teaching staff
Overview
The law protecting ownership and related rights in the expression and use of ideas, including copyright, patents, registered designs, trade marks, rights to confidential information, and actions for ‘passing off’.
This paper is an introduction to Intellectual Property (IP) Law. IP is the law protecting ownership and related rights in the expression and use of ideas, including copyright, patents, registered designs, trade marks, rights to confidential information and actions for "passing off".
About this paper
| Paper title | Intellectual Property |
|---|---|
| Subject | Law |
| EFTS | 0.1125 |
| Points | 15 points |
| Teaching period | Semester 1 (On campus) |
| Domestic Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for 2027 have not yet been set |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Prerequisite
- LAWS 202 and LAWS 203 and 36 further LAWS points
- Pre or Corequisite
- Any 200-level LAWS paper not already passed
- Restriction
- LAWS 444
- Limited to
- LLB, LLB(Hons)
- Contact
- More information link
- Teaching staff
- Textbooks
All course readings for this paper are provided by the Faculty on Aoroa.
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Global perspective, Interdisciplinary perspective, Lifelong learning, Scholarship, Communication, Critical thinking, Cultural understanding, Ethics, Environmental literacy, Information literacy, Research, Self-motivation, Teamwork.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
- Explain the foundational principles, purposes and sources of Intellectual Property Law, including the nature and types of Intellectual Property (IP) rights and the legal frameworks that govern them in New Zealand.
- Analyse and evaluate the requirements for patent grant, patentability criteria, claim interpretation, infringement and the ownership and commercial exploitation of patents.
- Apply and critically assess the rules governing trademark registrability and infringement, including absolute and relative grounds for refusal and the scope of rights and defences under trademark law.
- Explain and evaluate the subsistence, ownership, scope and infringement of copyright, including authorship, qualification, moral rights and statutory exceptions.
- Compare and synthesise the legal and policy approaches across patents, trademarks and copyright, identifying key similarities, differences and overarching rationales within the broader IP system.