Last modified: 18 Jul 2025 09:46
This course enables students to develop professional and practical skills in intellectual property law. This course will take the place of a dissertation.
| Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 5 |
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| Term | Third Term | Credit Points | 60 credits (30 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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This course will have 3 elements: expert training in communication, professional writing and team work (May); expert training in professional skills in intellectual property with a focus on one of legal, commercial and activist pathways including carrying out group formative work (June); individual oral assessments (June); first individual written assessment (July) and second individual written assessment (August).
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 40 | |
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Word count: 3,000 |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 20 | |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 40 | |
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There are no assessments for this course.
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Procedural | Apply | Be able to express and defend views and arguments in oral discussion, individually and as a group |
| Conceptual | Understand | Acquire knowledge and critical understanding of how intellectual property law operates from the perspective of legal pathways, commercialisation and activism/ policymaking, separately and together |
| Procedural | Apply | Have developed strong time management skills enabling students to conduct detailed preparation and thought before each teaching session and delivery of assessed work |
| Reflection | Analyse | Have developed legal research and critical writing skills and independent thought |
| Reflection | Evaluate | Build critical awareness of the argued positive and negative aspects of intellectual property and how to engage with them in different environments including activism |
| Factual | Remember | Acquire knowledge and critical understanding of intellectual property law's practical application in legal, commercial and activist/policy perspectives, specialising in one |
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