2024-2025 Catalog

BLE-323 Protecting Your Innovations Through Ip Law, Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights

As a growing number of firms choose to produce goods abroad, piracy, counterfeiting, and other acts that dilute their brands are becoming increasingly common. This course focuses on the legal and practical tools that entrepreneurs, start-ups, and existing business can use to protect their intellectual property (IP). It offers best practices on the strategic use of copyright, patent, trademark, and trade secrets to enhance corporate value in different industries and regions. The course provides a legal foundation in IP and demonstrates how to apply that knowledge to business through case analysis.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Student has completed all of the following course(s) BLE 214 - Principles of Business Law