Executive Diploma in Intellectual Property Licensing Law

Objective

Intellectual property rights are cornerstones of business assets in today’s corporations. It is important to business executives and marketing professionals to equip with the knowledge about licensing law concerning such rights. The Programme provides a comprehensive overview of the laws of contract and intellectual property that are material to their daily tasks at work. To further enhance their understanding and to facilitate direct application of knowledge to their work, the training content is designed with the focus on those contracts commonly used in daily commercial transactions normally encountered. It also covers the key case laws and main means of alternative dispute resolution in relation to contractual disputes in such transactions, with reference to local and overseas experience.

Course Content

Brand and Intellectual Property Rights (15 hours)

  • Overview of brand protection and licensing
  • Trademarks, trade names and company names
  • Copyrights, patents and passing-off
  • Intellectual property rights licensing and trading
  • Intellectual property rights infringement, protection and remedies

Contract Law Essentials for Intellectual Property Licensing (15 hours)

  • Fundamentals of law of contract
  • Terms of contracts
  • Breach of contracts and remedies
  • Termination of contracts
  • Case studies for avoiding commercial traps and pitfalls

Intellectual Property Licensing Agreements and Dispute Resolution (15 hours)

  • Essential terms of licensing contracts
  • Drafting and structuring of licensing contracts
  • Exclusion and limitation clauses
  • Guarantees, warranties and indemnities
  • Governing law, choice of court and international dispute resolution

Contact Hour: 45 Hours

Award

Executive Diploma in Intellectual Property Licensing Law will be awarded for those who have met all requirements.

Satisfactory Completion of the Programme:

The minimum required attendance rate is 70%. No assessment is required for the Programme.

Lecturer

The lecturers are practicing barrister or barrister-at-law. It ensures up-to-dated case laws would be shared to participants.

Joint-organiser

The Hong Kong Legal Training Institute ("HKLTI") believes "Legal training always is the crucial difference".

To this end, the HKLTI is dedicated to providing all with stimulating learning experience in legal training and continuing professional development with a view to equipping participants with the essential knowledge and legal skills for their effective and practical daily applications.

Trainers and visiting lecturers of the HKLTI are all qualified legal or other practitioners who are seasoned and highly-ranked in delivering legal training to great satisfaction for participants from various professional sectors, government authorities, corporations and SMEs.

With legal knowledge and its use becoming essential to individuals and businesses for their sustainable successes, the HKLTI has been offering training for a wide range of topic-specific legal updates, as well for continuing professional development and works with universities, associations, professional institutions, corporations and authorities to further legal knowledge that is of practical use.

Language Medium

Cantonese (supplemented with English)

Enquiries

DEDIP Secretariat:
Customer Service Department:
2774 8500 OR 2774 8501
For course details:
Mr Jimmy Yung 3958 4800
Ms Carrie Law 2774 8513
Email:
dedipl.dpd@hkma.org.hk
Address:
16/F Tower B, Southmark,
11 Yip Hing Street,
Wong Chuk Hang,
Hong Kong

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Member Fee

HK$ 7,200  (*)

Non-member Fee

HK$ 7,500  (*)

* Group Discount: HK$300.00 per participant
(For those organization which submit a total of two or more enrolment forms in one time.)

Enquiries

DEDIP Secretariat:
Customer Service Department:
2774 8500 OR 2774 8501
For course details:
Mr Jimmy Yung 3958 4800
Ms Carrie Law 2774 8513
Email:
dedipl.dpd@hkma.org.hk
Address:
16/F Tower B, Southmark,
11 Yip Hing Street,
Wong Chuk Hang,
Hong Kong