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Study IP Law
Innovative, trailblazing new programmes offer IP Law modules to law and non-law students! The Faculty is proud to introduce the first law programme at SU specifically aimed at non-law graduates and practitioners as well as the only Master of Laws (LLM) in Intellectual Property...
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New Intellectual Property Law
Innovation, creativity, novelty, ingenuity – the foundations of Intellectual Property (IP) Law is, simply put, the protection of the inventive spark as expressed by its maker. This sweat-of-the-brow approach to IP law is often cited as the rationale for the continued expansion of traditional IP protection measures to new forms of expression.
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Novel Patents and Designs
The practice of granting a monopoly over the production and distribution of an invention, or its fundamental idea, is the exclusive field of the law of patents. Across the scope of intellectual property law, patent protection is the only form that approaches the protection of pure ideas or concepts while other forms of IP law protect the expression of ideas in various forms.
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Digital IP
Exclusivity is the calling card of intellectual property law and the primary driver for the continued expansion of IP protection to new types of work, modern technologies and revolutionary expressions of human intellectual activity. On the other hand, Internet-based technology is driven by the central concepts of free access, peer exchange and rapid reproduction.
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Original Copyright
Originally drafted to allow the English Crown to profit from the reproduction of books, modern copyright law has become a complex, dynamic, liberal and indispensible mechanism for the protection and commercial exploitation of all types of personal expression.
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Distinctive Trademarks
A word, device, symbol or sign that is distinctive, descriptive and/or recognisable by the consumer as an indication of the product’s origin. For this reason Trademark Law is concerned with establishing the most fair, effective, transparent and obvious system for the marketing of goods or services when conducted with the aid of the manufacturer’s insignia (or other recognisable identifying element).
Read More"The Development Chair of Intellectual Property Law at Stellenbosch University"
The custodian of IP in South Africa
RESEARCH
Our first core function is to produce the highest level of academic research output in all areas of Intellectual Property (IP) Law, and to serve the University in this capacity. To this end the Chair has introduced two unique post-graduate programmes in IP Law to offer the highest level of IP legal tuition possible, stimulate the volume of academic research in these fields and widen access to legal eduction in this field. The introduction of the LLM (IP Law) and the PGDip (IP Law) is a first for a South African University and has established Stellenbosch University as the leading tertiary institute …
PROMOTE
Our second core function is the promotion of South African Intellectual Property (IP) both locally and abroad. It is without doubt that South African legal development has neglected the field of Intellectual Property Law and, therefore, one of the goals of the Chair is to ensure our laws are brought in step with International Intellectual Property Law. To this end, the Chair offers its assistance to Government to help draft and pass the necessary legislation, and to advise against the introduction of unfounded statutes …
PROTECT
Our third core function is the protection of Intellectual Property (IP) Rights at Stellenbosch University as well as the rigorous protection of Intellectual Property Law itself against unsound legal developments or practice trends that flow from underdeveloped doctrine, political motivation or careless legal harmonisation. Through its close ties with the South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law (SAIIPL), the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), the Department of Trade and Industry …
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Professor Owen Dean will deliver his inaugural lecture on Tuesday 21 May 2013 at 17:30 to...
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The Anton Mostert Chair of Intellectual Property is a division of the Department of Mercantile Law at the Faculty of Law, Stellenbosch University. For more information visit the About page, or contact us: +27(0) 21 808 3561.
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