URL study guide
https://tue.osiris-student.nl/onderwijscatalogus/extern/cursus?cursuscode=0SSUC0&collegejaar=2025&taal=enDescription
Last year course has been taught: 2024
Last examination year: 2025
Transitional arrangement: will be announced
The content of this course is divided into twelve topics. The first set of six topics (labeled DP1 ¿DP6) ,the second set of six topics (DS1-DS6) is about standardization:
DP1 Specific categories of patentees
DP2 Patent pools
DP3 Patents, standards and competition law; trade aspects of patents
DP4 Software patents and other new subject areas; patents in emerging technologies
DP5 Economic view on copyrights
DP6 Protection of design and models
DS1 Competitive standards strategy
DS2 Standards battles
DS3 Standards and sustainability
DS4 Research on standardization
DS5 The value and economic impact of standards; standards and innovation
DS6 Standards: regulation, policy and trade
Each of these topics is the central focus of a lecture, and has associated readings with it.
Objectives
- Be able to understand studies on patents and standards from various disciplinary perspectives. In specific, they should:
- Know what the main research strands are in economics, business studies, and law
- Understand the benefits and threats of university patenting
- Understand how patent law is constantly evolving, among other things in subject areas - Understand copyrights and its economic effects
- Know how inventions or subjects or activities can be effectively protected by design rights, trademarks, copyrights, patents, and more
- How institutional arrangements can address problems with patents, such as in patent pools
- Have learned the skills to perform quantitative analysis on patents, including patent searches and building patent datasets, and analyse such data with a specific research question in mind