INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW IN CONTEXT
Doctoral Course
(24 contact hours)
Hanken in cooperation with the INNOCENT Graduate school, University of Helsinki offers a doctoral course in intellectual property law in the spring of 2009. The course consists of seven modules, each module consisting of three hours of lectures, in total with the summing up 24 hours. Participants are required to prepare by reading the materials that is indicated in the programme.
Examination: Active attendance in class (minimum 75 %) and three papers of 5 pages on three of the topics mentioned below. The papers shall be sent to niklas.bruun@helsinki.fi and marcus.norrgard@hanken.fi no later than three days before the lectures on that specific topic.
The Course starts 12 February 2009 at 17.00 with an Introduction by professor Niklas Bruun, Hanken (Arkadiankatu 22), 5th floor seminar room (department of law).
The modules
NOTE: The materials will be published later on this web site.
Introduction (the course starts)
Professor Niklas Bruun
Time: Thursday, 12.2.2009 at 17.00
Place: Hanken, Arkadiankatu 22, 5th floor seminar room (department of law)
1. Comparative law — in the context of EU harmonisation
Professor Jonas Malmberg
Time: Tuesday, 24.2.2007 at 10.15 - 13.00
Place: Hanken , 5th floor seminar room
2. The use of comparative law in intellectual property law research (cases: preliminary injunctions, patent equivalence)
Assistant Professor Marcus Norrgård
Time: Wednesday, 4.3.2009 at 10.15 - 13.00
Place: Hanken 5th floor seminar room
Reading materials: Module 2, Norrgård
1. Zweigert & Kötz, An Introduction to Comparative Law, p. 1-74.
2. Brinkhof, "Is There a European Doctrine of Equivalence", IIC 2002 Heft 8, p. 911 et seq.
3. The decision of the House of Lords in Kirin-Amgen v Hoechst Marion Roussel, [2004] UKHL 46, [2005] 1 All ER 667.
3. Recent developments in the enforcement of intellectual property rights (Enforcement Directive etc.)
The lecture by Prof. Norrgård on 18 March 2009 is cancelled do to illness. The lecture will be held on 26 March 2009 at 14.00 in Hanken, 5th floor seminar room.
4. Public interest in intellectual property: copyrights and patents
LLD Marjut Salokannel
Time: Monday, 23.3.2008 at 10.15 - 13.00
Place: University of Helsinki, Porthania Building, Yliopistonkatu 3, 4th floor, Room P417
Materials: Module 4, Salokannel |
Hugenholtz B. & Okediji, R., Conceiving an international instrument on limitations and exception to copyright. Available at: |
The role of Biotechnology Intellectual Property Rights in the Bioeconomy of 2030. Available at: |
Integrating intellectual property rights and development policy, UK Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, 2002. Available at: |
Public health, innovation and intellectual property rights, Report, WHO Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, 2006. Available at: |
3. Recent developments in the enforcement of intellectual property rights (Enforcement Directive etc.)
Assistant Professor Marcus Norrgård
Time: Thursday, 26.3.2009 at 14.00-17.00 NOTE: New date and time!
Place: Hanken 5th floor seminar room
Reading materials: Module 3, Norrgård
5. IP and Law & Economics
Docent Max Oker-Blom
Time: Thursday, 2.4.2009 at 15.00 - 18.00
Place: Hanken, 6th floor seminar room NOTE: New date and place!
Reading materials: Module 5, Oker-Blom
6. A comparison between American and European legal traditions in intellectual property law
Professor Graeme Dinwoodie
Time: Tuesday, 21.4.2009 at 10.15 - 13.00
Place: Hanken 5th floor seminar room
Reading materials: Module 6, Dinwoodie
1. Ginsburg, Jane: A Tale of Two Copyrights: Literary Property in Revolutionary France and America," Tulane Law Review, volume 64, pp. 991-103
2. Gilliam v. ABC (2 Cir. 1976): |
3. Laura Heymann, The Copyright/Trademark Divide: |
7. The Nordic intellectual property tradition
Professor Niklas Bruun
Time: Tuesday, 28.4.2009, 10.15 - 13.00
Place: Hanken, 5th floor seminar room
Reading materials: Module 7, Bruun |
8. Summing up and evaluation
Professor Niklas Bruun, Assistant professor Marcus Norrgård
Time: Wednesday, 13.5.2009 at 10.15 - 13.00
Place: Hanken 5th floor seminar room
