In the coming academic year, the JU Faculty of Law and Administration will introduce a new English-language graduate study programme: Intellectual Property and New Technologies. The programme is developed in cooperation with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), and it is the second one of its kind in Europe.
The programme delivers comprehensive knowledge on the legal protection and commercial application of new technologies. New technologies create new opportunities in life and science and build bridges between people from different countries and cultures. They also pose serious challenges, especially for the intellectual property law. The programme offers an extensive curriculum on the intellectual property law related to new technologies, considered from an international perspective. It adopts a comparative approach to IP regulations, with EU law serving as a main point of reference.
The programme is developed in cooperation with the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). Its main focus is on the following issues: new technologies and patent law; copyright in the digital era; commercial communication in the context of trade marks, designs and unfair competition; data protection, privacy and personal rights on the Internet; Internet service providers’ liability; and more.
The programme makes extensive use of new technologies. During its first, non-residential semester, courses are conducted online through a modern e-learning platform. The remaining two residential semesters at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków combine traditional lectures and seminars with e-learning.
Graduates of the programme are well-prepared for working in international and domestic corporations and institutions active in the area of new technologies, or in non-governmental organisations. Their knowledge and competences may be of special value to those entrepreneurs and legal firms which operate in the demanding new technologies markets. Students may continue their education in Poland and/or abroad within the framework of several postgraduate and LLM studies.
The Chair in Intellectual Property Law also provides the opportunity to apply for doctoral studies (third-cycle studies) at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University.
