Lecture

Intellectual Property: Basics and Regulations

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HUM-410: Law and technology I

Ce cours présente le cadre légal applicable à certaines problématiques dans des domaines à caractère technique, tels que le droit de la construction, le droit de l'informatique, la biotechnologie, la protection des données, la digitalisation, la robotisati ...

Description

This lecture covers the fundamental concepts of intellectual property, including copyrights, trademarks, and plant varieties. It explains the rights granted to creators and the legal basis for patents in Switzerland. The lecture also delves into the conditions for patentability, such as novelty, industrial use, and non-obviousness. It discusses the distinction between product patents and procedures, as well as the rights and restrictions conferred on patent holders. Additionally, it explores the duration of patent protection, the transfer of patents, and the implications of violating intellectual property rights. Practical aspects of patent filing, including descriptions, drawings, and claims, are also detailed.

Instructor

Anne-Christine Favre

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Ontological neighbourhood

Law

Branches of law: Copyright law

Related concepts (32)

Patent

A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention. In most countries, patent rights fall under private law and the patent holder must sue someone infringing the patent in order to enforce their rights. The procedure for granting patents, requirements placed on the patentee, and the extent of the exclusive rights vary widely between countries according to national laws and international agreements.

Software patent

A software patent is a patent on a piece of software, such as a computer program, libraries, user interface, or algorithm. A patent is a set of exclusionary rights granted by a state to a patent holder for a limited period of time, usually 20 years. These rights are granted to patent applicants in exchange for their disclosure of the inventions. Once a patent is granted in a given country, no person may make, use, sell or import/export the claimed invention in that country without the permission of the patent holder.

Patent prosecution

Patent prosecution describes the interaction between applicants and their representatives, and a patent office with regard to a patent, or an application for a patent. Broadly, patent prosecution can be split into pre-grant prosecution, which involves arguing before, and sometimes negotiation with, a patent office for the grant of a patent, and post-grant prosecution, which involves issues such as post-grant amendment and opposition. Patent prosecution is distinct from patent litigation, which describes legal action relating to the infringement of patents.

Holter monitor

In medicine, a Holter monitor (often simply Holter) is a type of ambulatory electrocardiography device, a portable device for cardiac monitoring (the monitoring of the electrical activity of the cardiovascular system) for at least 24 hours. The Holter's most common use is for monitoring ECG heart activity (electrocardiography or ECG). Its extended recording period is sometimes useful for observing occasional cardiac arrhythmias which would be difficult to identify in a shorter period.

Cardiac monitoring

Cardiac monitoring generally refers to continuous or intermittent monitoring of heart activity to assess a patient's condition relative to their cardiac rhythm. Cardiac monitoring is usually carried out using electrocardiography, which is a noninvasive process that records the heart's electrical activity and displays it in an electrocardiogram. It is different from hemodynamic monitoring, which monitors the pressure and flow of blood within the cardiovascular system. The two may be performed simultaneously on critical heart patients.

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