Copyright, trademarks and patents are intellectual property rights intended to protect the rights of inventors, writers, scientists, artists and others in their creations:
- Copyright protects the rights of creators to their ideas, in for example, books, art, movies and music;
- Trademark protects the names and logos associated with a particular company;
- Patents protect inventions, from technology to pharmaceuticals, by giving their inventors an exclusive license.
Intellectual property law intersects with other legal fields, including innovation and technology, data protection and privacy as well as competition law.
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and tools like Chat GPT make this area of law even more complex: who owns the products of generative AI? What about the intellectual property rights of artists whose works were used to train AI without license?
Co-curricular centres
Our scholars are on the cutting-edge of intellectual property developments and its intersection with innovation and technology law.
Our Centre for Innovation Law and Policy and Future of Law Lab promote research and learning on issues of intellectual property as they intersect with innovation and technology law.
Courses
As a student here, you’ll be introduced to the basic principles of Intellectual Property law in the substantive upper-year course and have opportunities for further advanced study of intellectual property in related areas of innovation law, privacy law and technology law.
Beyond the classroom
Students also may also develop practical experience through Externships in areas such as media law and structural genomes.
Faculty
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