JSBJ3110 Intellectual Property Rights and Research (3 cr)

This intensive two-part course introduces the fundamentals of intellectual property rights in the context of academic research and teaching. The course combines legal foundations with practical applications relevant to researchers.

Part I focuses on the general aspects of copyright related to teaching and research. In additionthis session relates to open data, licensing and text and data mining.

Part II focuses on industrial property rights, including patents and utility models, as well as ownership, contracts and commercialization of research results.

Students are required to take e-course IPR is the New Black and provide a learning diary from the days the student took part in the lectures.

After the course the students will have a basic picture of intellectual property as they affect research and teaching.

Intellectual property rights (IPRs) are the rights given to persons over the creations of their minds. They usually give the creator an exclusive right over the use of their creation for a certain period of time.

IPRs are generally divided in two main categories: Copyrights and neighboring rights; and Industrial Property rights (Patents, trademarks, design rights, etc). Whether you are developing an invention or focusing on research and teaching, IPRs will determine your rights and duties in this context. In this two-day course, you will learn how to make use of the copyright system and its boundaries, especially when teaching and making use of on-line materials and databases; and also, about industrial property rights, namely patents, utility models, and protection of data that are paramount for researchers. The law relating to employee and university inventions will also be discussed.

Additionally, the following web sites can be consulted: World Intellectual Property Organisation: www.wipo.org; European Patent Office: www.epo.org; The Finnish Patent and Registration Office: https://www.prh.fi

Optional / supporting study materials:

Taina Pihlajarinne, Anette Alén, Juli Mansnérus: Immateriaalioikeudet. Alma Talent 2026

Kirsi Salmela: Opettajan tekijänoikeuskäsikirja – Selviytymisopas tekijänoikeuksien viidakkoon. Edita. 2023

Niklas Bruun, Välimäki, Mikko: Korkeakoulukeksinnöt, IPR University Centerin julkaisuja 2007

Niklas Bruun, Marja-Leena Mansala: Intellectual Property and Employment Law 2021. (s.2-112)

Justine Pila: European Intellectual Property Law. New York: Oxford University Press, second edition 2019.