Intellectual Property and Innovation Management
Student must complete 36 credit hours
Speciality Requirements Student must complete 18 credit hours
| Course Code | Course Name | Credit Hours | Prerequests |
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| 413001 | Introduction to International Intellectual Property Law | 3 |
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| This course deals with international, regional and national legislation which regulate provisions related to intellectual property to stimulate innovation, providing legal protection for the innovation market and creating a balance between national and international legislation to ensure effective and realistic applications. Such legislations are copyrights, patents, trademarks and geographical indications. Also, the course covers procedural, executive and criminal matters which can be taken as an effective legal means of protecting the legal application of such legislation. | |||
| 413002 | Patents | 3 |
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| This course addresses patents and commercial uses clarifying patents legal protection and the methods of legal and technical exploitation within the framework of national and regional laws and international agreements such as the European and US Patent Agreements in an attempt to stimulate intellectual development to keep pace with the economic progress and the cultural revolution in the world. It also deals with the attacks on patent ownership and legal liability, whether it was criminal or civil through legal claims and litigation procedures. | |||
| 413003 | Trade Marks and Geographical Indications | 3 |
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| This course is considered a gate to the legal organization and technical regulation for the market of Trade Marks which requires legal protection and determination of civil or criminal liability for violations, attacks in the labour market and the illicit competition through a comparative study of national and regional legislation and international agreements of its member states. This course is supported by legal means to protect implementation, litigation procedures and claims. In particular, the practice of litigation in various state members of international agreements and the regulation of conflicts of national and international laws for the registration of patents and laws that must be adopted. The course also addresses the protection of Geographical Indications at the international level under the following legislation: Paris Agreement for the Protection of Industrial Property, Lisbon Agreement on the Protection of the Labels of enterprises and their international registration and the agreement on Trade-Related aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). | |||
| 413004 | Copy Rights and Related Rights | 3 |
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| This course covers the Copy Rights and Related Rights in a comparative study of national legislation and international agreements and addresses the creative and intellectual product of authors through literary and artistic works. It also addresses digital workbooks, software and databases to keep up with the technological revolution and provides security and confidence in the legal protection of authors. This course deals with copyrights, producers of audio recordings, radio and television bodies, as well as copyright and legal exploitation of those rights. Also, it addresses the legal protections of copyright and examines the methods of litigation and judicial decisions. | |||
| 413005 | Industrial Design, Models and Rare Plants Varieties | 3 |
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| industrial designs of all kinds. In addition, they can train to describe the mechanisms of creative processes and come up with practical ideas to stimulate innovation and provide creative ideas for assessing concepts. Students can also apply the method of work of the innovative designer in industrial projects, write concept papers, describe the projects and related results. In addition to presenting and analyzing the results of the projects, by writing and orally, reaching to the documentation of the work in a portfolio style. | |||
| 413006 | Intellectual Property and Innovation Management | 3 |
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| This course aims to introduce the concept of intellectual property in general and the management of innovation in particular, as it tackles the idea of managing innovation and explains how to motivate individuals throughout daily work to create productive management ideas that generate benefits to the economic and social institutions in addition to individuals. Also, it will introduce how to integrate the individual activity and innovative attitude and excellence among the scope of the collective work and process to create rich ideas and solutions to respond to administrative problems, whether using modern technologies or digital and managerial technology in different types and classifications. | |||
| 413098 | Comprehensive Examination | 0 |
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Speciality Optional Requirements Student must complete 18 credit hours
| Course Code | Course Name | Credit Hours | Prerequests |
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| 413020 | Legal Protection of Pharmaceutical Industries | 3 |
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| This course will cover the different aspects of the organizational and national issues, in addition to the international organization including the FDA (in the United States of America) (European EMEA), and the conditions of the International Health Organization for the pharmaceutical industry. It also highlights the registration of medicine drugs and cosmetics, and will also focus on the guidelines related to registration and explanation of the main ingredients of common technical documents (CTD) used in the registration of cosmetics, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. The course will also cover various aspects of research activities undertaken by the local and international pharmaceutical industries, and the forms of its operations and business models, including its forms of writing reports on intellectual property rights and protecting these rights, how to use plant classifications in various pharmaceutical industries in an innovative way that achieves their scientific and medical goals. This will provide researchers with precise knowledge about the separating limit between the right of protecting intellectual property for the pharmaceutical producer and the right of protecting the pharmaceutical industry and its aims as a system. Also, to identify the protected industries and the other ones that cannot be covered under legal protection for this pharmaceutical industry in light of the competitive environment. | |||
| 413021 | Alternative Disputes Resolution Mechanism of Intellectual Property | 3 |
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| The course addresses the alternative means of settling disputes related to the rights of intellectual property and focuses on the arbitration and mediation process. This course aims to introduce the importance of finding alternative solutions instead of going to the courts to save time and effort and try to reach a settlement that satisfies all parties through an arbitration clause or conditions, and deals with the idea of jurisdiction and legal organization in terms of the competent bodies and the applicable law, and organizes the terms and mechanism of seeking arbitration. This course is endorsed with practical training for students about conducting mediation and simulating an arbitration process in front of juries. | |||
| 413022 | E-commerce law, Technology and Intellectual Property | 3 |
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| This course aims to study the elements of intellectual property in the digital environment and electronic fields and study concepts and terms related to electronic commerce. This course deals with the ethics of electronic transactions and the legal protection of intellectual property for electronic and digital works, especially in the field of technological inventions and the study of legal issues that have been raised on the subject and legal ways to prevent attacks, along with explaining the legal procedures to activate the legal protection of these works due to its dangerousness and the difficulty in finding legal protection in light of national legislations and the importance of activating the international agreements. | |||
| 413023 | Media, Audiovisual means and Intellectual Property | 3 |
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| This course deals with the topic of intellectual property rights, which are equivalent to the copyright of an author. It aims to introduce visual and audio multi-media as a mean of transferring intellectual property, the performance of works and legal protection that it entitles, which enables it to achieve its goals through disseminating the information, while explaining the limitations of these rights and the possible violations that might face broadcasting organizations, including radio, television, theatres, and all local and international media institutions. This course addresses the terminologies related to multi-media and the legal means of exploitation and the methods of legal protection within the comparative legal legislations and agreements, in addition to the affiliated associations and institutions. This course aims to assist the student in distinguishing between the different types of audio-visual communications (multi-media) and dealing with different methods of registration, and local and international broadcasting. In addition, it enables students to identify the most common uses that would be compatible with intellectual property rights and to take advantage of modern communication and registration in supporting and developing creativity and innovations that are associated with this field in intellectual property and to define the types of attacks that are carried out against the elements of intellectual property, to understand and protect the rights and obligations arising from the use of these means. | |||
| 413024 | Intellectual Property and Competition Law | 3 |
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| This course teaches the conflict between the competition laws on the one hand and the intellectual property laws on the other hand in. This is to find a balance between rights and obligations, protect them, provide guarantees, and secure an effective legal system. It is also to protect intellectual property rights for the most important activities in the labour market such as medical products, computer software, electronic devices, and providing licenses that are granted under national and international laws and agreements, without violating the competition laws. This subject is addressed within a study to the international economic market and the fields of competition, violations and misuse according to market power while focusing on the legal procedures for activating legal protection to reach effective legal protection that does not contradict with competition laws. Here, it is necessary to address the issue of economic conflict between the states of European Union and the United States and China and other states that are considered a sponsor for economic renaissance and the dominating countries in the economic fields. | |||
| 413025 | Electronic Security of Intellectual Property | 3 |
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| This course aims to explore the legal and regulatory framework for security in internet websites, electronic warfare, addressing cybercrimes, and implementing effective security policies to counter these crimes and reduce attacks and threats that reach to the level of terrorism through the cybersphere. It also aims to discuss the internal and domestic laws and regulations that would achieve the desired protection and implement a security system, electronic and digital effective system, within an analytical research study that aims to reach an effective and realistic application. The course is expected to achieve the following educational outcomes: 1. Identify and distinguish the different types that are dependent on the internet. 2. Deal with different elements of ownership on the internet. 3. Take different possible benefit of the intellectual property elements in the digital sphere within the legal protection. 4. Develop innovations and achieve compliance with the digital sphere . 5. Issue correct legal procedures when facing an attack against intellectual property in the digital sphere. | |||
| 413026 | IP & Free Trade Agreements | 3 |
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| This course addresses the development of intellectual property in the international trade agreements, in addition to the terms and policies of intellectual property in the international trade circles in different phases; pre the TRIPS agreement, during this agreement, and post the bi-trade agreements. The subject of publishing rights in the digital sphere will be given a special focus. | |||
| 413027 | Legal Issues for Entrepreneurs | 3 |
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| In this course, students will study the key legal issues that face projects, businesses, and legal protection for intellectual property rights that encounters including license, conflict resolutions within the applicable laws as the labour law, industrial and commercial legislations, and national and international intellectual property legislation. This course aims to link the theoretical and practical sides through developing student abilities to understand the problems that may face their entrepreneurship establishments and how to launch their creativity and innovation in the establishment within the legal protection. Students will also study the interaction with decision-making circles that are related to developing and launching entrepreneurial ideas in their commercial projects and legal consultations in an attempt to achieve industrial and commercial objectives within reasonable prices as much as possible. | |||
| 413028 | Special Topic in Intellectual Property | 3 |
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| In this course, students will study a special topic in intellectual property. The subject will be chosen based on the interests of teachers and students in the department in addition to new subjects and legal issues that may arise in the field of intellectual property. | |||
| 413040 | IP Management and Commercialization | 3 |
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| This course focuses on the investigations into the principles of intellectual property management and covers several topics, including intellectual property and technology transfer, content transfer agreements, joint ownership, providing license and strategic alliances, evaluation of the intellectual property, establishment of start-up companies and large projects, outsourcing by companies, marketing, arbitration, and alternative dispute resolution. | |||
| 413041 | Innovation in Services and Business Models | 3 |
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| The course will address innovation intangible services which are different from innovation in intangible and invisible services. The course will also address how to convert productive companies into service companies, and provide business models that strive to be accurate and employ innovation and creativity in designs that are legally protected. | |||
| 413042 | Fundamentals of Marketing and Commercialization | 3 |
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| This course is an introductory course to Fundamentals of Contemporary Marketing course. It focuses on the track of planning and marketing which leads to setting successful marketing strategies, including products and services marketing in national and international environments. It also focuses on environmental surveying, identifying and assessing measurable goals, innovating and controlling interrelated elements of product/service delivery, planning and implementing the marketing mix (distribution, price and promotion channels), as well as strengthening customer relationship by providing value to customers. | |||
| 413043 | Creativity and Innovation | 3 |
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| This course deals with creativity and innovation in two parts. The first part is fundamentals of creativity including topics based on thinking, communication, understanding, creative thinking and problem-solving. The second part focuses on innovation and how creativity can lead to innovation. The course aims to provide students with the knowledge and offer the needed means to develop students' abilities in creative thinking and facilitate their ability to achieve innovation. | |||
| 413044 | Topics in Open Innovation | 3 |
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| This course focuses on the financial and technological burden of innovation in the fields of the modern economy. The definition of innovation in this model is more open and diverse processes to exceed the walls of a company. It deals with a key idea that is based on the principle of sharing with customer and cooperation for increasing achievements, interaction, and learning from the spirit of teamwork to reach creative ideas within more comprehensive and open markets across the world. in addition to the companies needs to redirect management processes to increase knowledge and science with means of external innovation to contribute to developing its systems and benefit from foreign expertise. This course will also present new cases of open innovation models such as innovation systems and networks in the public and private sectors and stakeholders including innovators, funding financier and mentors. | |||
| 413045 | Entrepreneurship Management | 3 |
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| This course deals with the organizational methods that managers can implement to improve performance through influencing behaviours of individuals and using leadership skills that combine the ability to diagnose frameworks of individual and group organizational challenges and try to deal with and overcome these challenges. This course addresses issues related to leadership, communication, and motivation skills, and the ability to build and deal with team spirit, create organizational change, intercultural communications, and decision-making skills within an ethical legal system in the first place. | |||
| 413046 | Emerging Issues in Innovation Management | 3 |
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| This course aims to teach students about emerging issues and contemporary issues in innovation management. It focuses on studying these issues within the scope of innovative and creative administration according to local, regional and global laws and regulations. It will also show and review success and failure stories by analyzing them and examining relevant texts and materials that regulate them organizationally and legally. Presentations and small projects will be a major part of this course. | |||
| 413047 | Pharmaceutical Regulatory Affair and IP rights | 3 |
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| This course will cover the different local and international organizational issues including the American FAD, the European EMEA, and the regulations of the World Health Organization for the industry of medical production. The course highlights medicine drug and cosmetics registration and focuses on the regulating principles in registration thorough explanation of the main ingredients of common technical documents (CTD) used in the registration of cosmetics, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. The course will also cover various aspects of research activities undertaken by the local and international pharmaceutical industries. Students will be trained to write documents of intellectual property rights, the importance of intellectual property rights and pharmaceutical research and development needs. It will also discuss the majority of programs related to intellectual property for pharmaceutical and medical classifications such as patents, trademarks, designs, etc. | |||
| 413048 | Social Innovation | 3 |
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| This course explores the role of social innovation in producing works of value and achieve social responsibility, and explains how companies achieved unprecedented results and benefits through leading changes and resolving societal problems. Also, this course develops an understanding of the main differences between social innovation, charity, teamwork, application of innovation for community service, and the common and traditional activities of the company. It aims to learn ways to take advantage of a scalable and sustainable mechanism to solve social problems. This course provides examples of leading companies that direct social responsibility to social innovation, and created a revolution about the way we perceive the role of business in society. | |||
| 413049 | Special Topic in Innovation Management | 3 |
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| In this course, the student will study a special topic in creativity management. The topic will be chosen based on the interests of teachers and students in the college, as well as new topics and legal issues that appear in the field of creativity management. | |||