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Course: 2025/2026

Intellectual Property Management semester
(19799)
Bachelor in Neuroscience (Plan: 517 - Estudio: 389)


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Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 3.0 ECTS

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Learning Outcomes
K19: Acquires knowledge about business management and intellectual property that is relevant for neuroscience. S5: Appropriately uses the scientific and technical vocabulary of the different subfields within Neuroscience. S8: Has the professional and interpersonal skills necessary to successfully navigate the working conditions that exist in their chosen subarea(s) of neuroscience, and is able to successfully use informational and communication tools and techniques for training and professional activities. C5: Apply your neuroscience knowledge in a unifying and integrated fashion as part of a multidisciplinary team (pharmaceutical sector, health industry, diagnostic techniques, health information technologies, government agencies and regulatory bodies. C6: Apply the results of your comprehensive training to your everyday professional activities, combining Neuroscience knowledge with a solid foundation of ethical responsibility and respect for fundamental rights, diversity and democratic values.
Description of contents: programme
1 INTRODUCTION AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW 1. Property law and intellectual property. The constitution and copyright. 2. Copyright and other intellectual property rights. 3. The 1996 Consolidated Text and subsequent reforms. 4. International conventions: The Berne Convention. The WIPO Treaties. TRIPS 5. Community or EU law. The Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. 2 SUBJECT MATTER OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 1. Creations: art. 10.1 LPI. 2. Literary, artistic and scientific works. 3. Special cases: plastic works, audiovisual works, computer programs, databases. 4. Exclusions from protection. Article 13. 5. Subject matter of other intellectual property rights. 3 SUBJECTS: AUTHORS AND RIGHT HOLDERS 1. The status of author. Presumption and evidence. 2. The original rightholders. 3. Derivative rightholders. 4. Collaborative, collective and composite works. 4 CONTENT: MORAL COPYRIGHT 1. Concept and characteristics. 2. Content: Paternity, unpublished and disclosure. Integrity. Withdrawal, modification, access. 3. Cases of legitimation mortis causa. 4. Moral rights of the artist. 5 CONTENT: EXPLOITATION RIGHTS 1. Concept and characters. 2. Content: Right of reproduction, transformation, public communication, distribution. 3. Other economic rights of authors and other intellectual property rights. 4. Duration and limits. 6 TRANSFER OF RIGHTS 1. General rules. 2. Exclusive transfers and authorisations. 3. Typical exploitation contracts. 7 PROTECTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 1. Registration of Intellectual Property. 2. Collective management entities. 3 .Protection of technological and information measures for the management of rights. 4. Civil judicial protection. Injunctive relief. Injunctions for injunctions and compensation. 5. The Intellectual Property Commission. 6. Criminal protection.
Learning activities and methodology
Classroom lectures. Face-to-face classes: reduced (workshops, seminars, case studies). Student individual work. Final exam. Seminars and lectures supported by computer and audiovisual aids. Practical learning based on cases and problems, and exercise resolution. Individual and group or cooperative work with the option of oral or written presentation. Individual and group tutorials to resolve doubts and queries about the subject.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination/test 60
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40




Extraordinary call: regulations

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.