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LEGAL520-23B (TGA)
Intellectual Property Law and Policy
30 Points
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Convenor(s)
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Jennifer Campion
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N.5.19
jennifer.campion@waikato.ac.nz
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What this paper is about
How this paper will be taught
LEGAL520 Intellectual Property Law and Policy is taught in B Trimester. Lectures will be presented live in the classroom and may also be viewed live online via Panopto and will also recorded for students to view after class as noted below.
The teaching component comprises:
(a) one two-hour lecture per week, which is piggy-backed with LEGAL468 Intellectual Property Law and which will give you a grounding in intellectual property law. This lecture will take place from 12 noon - 2pm, please check the timetable to confirm the scheduled room for this lecture; and
(b) one discussion meeting (of one to two hours duration, depending upon the extent of the discussion) for LEGAL520 students only, which will be held each week immediately following the scheduled lecture. This discussion meeting will be held in Room N 4 25 (the seminar room on level 4 of the Law Building) and will allow LEGAL520 students to discuss their weekly readings and provides some additional support as they develop their research projects.
The paper is a FLEXI paper, and the lectures will be given live on-site and streamed live via Zoom as well as recorded. The discussion meeting will be held in-person and via Zoom, but will not be recorded as it features students discussing their work.
Office Hours: 1-2pm Mondays, 11am-12pm on Fridays, by zoom and in person. Other appointment times are available by request.
Selected lectures will be presented live in Hamilton and Tauranga (i.e. some lectures will be presented in Hamilton and some lectures will be presented in Tauranga).
Students enrolled in 400 or 500 level Law papers via the Tauranga Campus may attend Lectures either in person by taking advantage of the Kaimai Express, the free inter campus (Tauranga-Hamilton) university shuttle service, or online via Panopto in the same way that Lectures at other levels can be viewed.
Required Readings
All law students are required to purchase, for use in all law papers, a copy of Coppard, McLay, Murray & Orpin-Dowell New Zealand Law Style Guide (3rd ed, 2018). This is available from Bennetts.
In addition to the texts identified below, case law materials will be provided via the Waikato Reading List for LEGAL468, which is also linked to on Moodle - along with the PPTS for the relevant topics. Additional readings for LEGAL520 students will be provided via reading List and Moodle.
Some further references to texts and cases will be given from time to time in lectures.
Texts:
Copyright Act 1994 (with amendments)
Patents Act 2013 (with amendments)
Trade Marks Act 2002 (with amendments)
Reference Books
Frankel, S and McLay, G Intellectual Property in New Zealand (2ed, 2011)
Frankel, S and Lai, J Patent Law and Policy (2016)
Intellectual Property in New Zealand: Copyright and Design. (1996-) Electronic Database version on Lexis Nexis website.
I Finch (ed) James & Wells Intellectual Property Law in New Zealand (3ed, 2017) and Electronic Database version: Brookers Intellectual Property Law in New Zealand
Kingsbury, A Butterworths Student Companion: Intellectual Property (2ed 2012)
Sumpter, Paul Intellectual Property Law: Principles in Practice (3ed, 2017)
Sumpter, Paul Trade Marks In Practice (4ed, 2018)
Todd, S (ed) The Law of Torts in New Zealand (8ed 2019)
The Laws of New Zealand “Intellectual Property”
New Zealand Intellectual Property Journal 1995-
Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand website: http://www.iponz.govt.nz
Further material may be provided on the paper site on Moodle (http://elearn.waikato.ac.nz), the University of Waikato’s online learning system. Any such material is provided on the following terms:
The University of Waikato owns the intellectual property rights, including copyright, in and to this site, or has acquired the necessary licenses to display the material on the site. As a student of Te Piringa Faculty of Law, you are granted a limited license to use (access, display or print a single copy) the material from the papers in which you are enrolled for the purposes of participating in the paper only, provided the information is not modified. Materials may not under any circumstances be copied, stored, distributed or provided in any form or method whatsoever to any third party. Any other use of the material is prohibited. None of the material may be otherwise reproduced, reformatted, republished or re-disseminated in any manner or form without the prior written consent of the University of Waikato. To obtain such consent, please contact Te Piringa Faculty of Law.
Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete the course should be able to:
Assessments
How you will be assessed
This paper is internally assessed. Assessment comprises a Research Proposal and a Research Paper.
The Research Proposal must be a maximum of 1,500 words.
The Research Paper must be a maximum of 11,500 words.
The internal assessment/exam ratio (as stated in the University Calendar) is 100:0. There is no final exam.
The internal assessment/exam ratio (as stated in the University Calendar) is 100:0. There is no final exam.