Master's Degree in Innovation, Rights, and Industrial Agreements

  • ECTS

    120 credits

  • Duration

    2 years

  • Training structure

    Faculty of Law and Political Science

Presentation

  • Head of teaching: Anne Catherine Chiariny
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Program

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Master 1 Innovation, Industrial Rights and Agreements

  • EU Competition law

    6 credits
    • CM Competition Law

      4 credits
    • Competition Law Tutorial

      2 credits
  • Preparation for negotiation & resolution of industrial agreements

  • EU Private International Law Group 1

    6 credits
    • CM Private International Law Group 1

      4 credits
    • TD Private International Law Group 1

      2 credits
  • Business Criminal Law (ST)

  • EU Distribution Law (sales/service)

    6 credits
    • TD Distribution (sales/service)

      2 credits
    • CM Distribution (sales/service)

  • EU Language

    • English

  • Civil law: Group 1 securities (ST)

  • General tax law (ST)

    3 credits
  • Digital skills - In-depth documentary research

  • Optional

    • Legal clinic (F)

    • Memory (F)

    • Internship (F)

    • Professional integration workshops (F): CV/cover letter

    • Supervised project (F)

    • Apprenticeship (F)

    • Legal monitoring (F)

  • EU EU business law

    6 credits
    • CM EU Business Law

      4 credits
    • EU Business Law Tutorial

  • Intellectual property law (ST)

  • EU Insolvency Law Group 1

    6 credits
    • CM Collective proceedings law group 1

    • TD Collective Proceedings Law Group 1

      2 credits
  • Digital skills - Pix+Law preparation

  • EU Distribution Department

    6 credits
    • CM Distribution Law

    • Distribution Law Tutorial

      2 credits
  • Preparation for negotiation & resolution of industrial agreements

  • International Trade Law (ST)

  • Advanced civil procedures: enforcement procedures (ST)

Master's Degree in Innovation, Rights, and Industrial Agreements

SEMESTER 3

SKILLS: UPDATING KNOWLEDGE
UE 1 - Updating knowledge: corporate law and civil law (70 hours of tutorials - 5C)
General theory of corporate intellectual assets (Know-how and general rules on trade secrets, Patents and Plant Variety Certificates, Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Copyright) / General theory of property law / Contract techniques (30 hours of e-learning) / General theory of contracts and special contracts: formation of contracts, effect of contracts, penalties for breach of contract, international contract law (applicable law, competent court) / Company law (e-learning 20 hours) / Insolvency law (e-learning 20 hours)

> SKILLS: INDUSTRIAL AGREEMENTS AND CONTRACTS
UE 2   - Agreements and contracts on industrial rights (50 hours of tutorials - 12C)
Patent agreements (Confidentiality agreements; Licenses; Assignments; Coexistence agreements; Corporate transactions; Consortiums; Joint ventures) / - Agreements on unpatented know-how (Trade secret regime) / Employee creation regime   - Corporate transactions / - Copyright agreements /
Agreements on trademarks and trademark portfolios (License; Assignment; Non-opposition agreement - Corporate transactions) / - Agreements on designs and models (License; Assignment) / - English legal vocabulary of intellectual property.

> LANGUAGE SKILLS
UE 3 - English (10 hours of tutorials) 1C
+TOEIC or TOEFL required

PRE-PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
UE
4 - Legal research 4C
Legal monitoring (Assessedtutored project ) 150 hours

 

 SEMESTER 4

> SKILLS: INDUSTRIAL AGREEMENTS AND THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
UE5   - Industrial Agreements and the Business Environment (50 hours of tutorials - 12C)
Competition law applied to intellectual property exploitation agreements (abuse of dominant position; cartels; exemption regulations; FRAND licenses) / Applied financing law (intellectual property as a financing tool: exchange platforms; securitization) / Security law (Intellectual assets as collateral)/Taxation of intellectual property contracts / Collective proceedings law and transfer of intellectual assets (Transfer of intellectual assets in the context of restructuring operations) / Methods of resolving contractual disputes: judicial resolution and alternative dispute resolution methods (Domestic and international arbitration - ad hoc arbitration and institutional arbitration WIPO ICC) /Applied international law (National securities portfolios; Conflicts of laws and jurisdictions); European Union trademark and design litigation; European patent litigation with unitary effect in Europe; Comparative law.

SKILLS: INDUSTRIAL AGREEMENTS SPECIFIC TO CERTAIN FIELDS
UE6 - Industrialagreements specific to certainfields (50 hours of tutorials - 12C)
Pharmaceutical patent license / Software license / - Open data; Free license / FRAND license / Patronage, sponsorship, mentoring (promotional investment by the company) / SATT partnership / Legal reservation of living organisms (biobanks and scientific collections), Contract for access to and use of biological material / Scientific interest group.

> LANGUAGE SKILLS
UE7 - English (10 hours of tutorials) 1C

> PRE-PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
UE8
- Practical management of the company's intellectual assets (10 hours of tutorials - 6C)
- Practical case studies and contract techniques (drafting contracts)
- Reasoned dossier
- Legal monitoring.


EU 9 - Professional integration (7C)
- Internship lasting 7 weeks to 3 months or work-study program (apprenticeship contract or professional training contract)
- Presentation of professions (conferences by professionals)
- Help with writing resumes.

Or EU 9 - Professional integration (5C) + Student engagement (2C)

  • Updating knowledge of corporate law & civil law

    12 credits
  • Agreements and contracts on industrial rights

    12 credits
  • Legal research / Supervised project / Thesis

    7 credits
    • Choice of supervised project/thesis

      7 credits
      • Choose one of two options:

        • Memory

          7 credits
        • Supervised project

    • Legal monitoring

  • English

    1 credit
  • EU of choice

    7 credits
    • Choose one of two options:

      • Professional integration

        4 credits
      • Commitment/Professional integration

        7 credits
        • Student engagement

          2 credits
        • Professional integration

          2 credits
  • Practice of managing the intellectual assets of the company.

    6 credits
  • Industrial agreements specific to certain fields

    5 credits
  • The industrial agreement and the corporate environment

    12 credits
  • Language

    1 credit