COURSE UNIT TITLE

: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND COMPETITION LAW

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ISL 4051 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND COMPETITION LAW ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Business Administration

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ASLI TUTUCU

Offered to

Business Administration
Business Administration (Evening)

Course Objective

To learn the subject and basic concepts of intellectual property law. Distinguishing intellectual property rights. To be able to understand the characteristics, functions and ways of protection bye distinguishing intellectual property rights from each other. This course aims to explain how and why state interventions are set forth by competition policies and drafted competition acts and restrictions in order to constitute an open market which provides maximum benefit for consumers and social welfare, competitors as well.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be Able to identify the types of intellectual property rights, to distinguish them from each other and to comprehend their functions
2   Determining how to protect intellectual property rights in case of attack and what are the ways to protect them
3   To be able to explain trademarks, patents, models, designs, geaographical indications, ideas and works of art with examples to show their functions
4   To state the reasons (aims) and scope of the legal instruments of competition law
5   To state competition theories; how competition is prevented, restricted or distorted
6   To understand the meaning of agreements, decisions and practices preventing, restricting or distorting competition
7   To determine why an exemption regime has been regulated and to explain the types and conditions of exemption
8   To explain the meaning of abuse of dominant position and to state the elements (forms) of dominant position

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to intellectual property law, general information about intellectual property rights, general scope of industrial property law- conceptual studies
2 Definition of the trademark, sign that can be a trademark , registration of the trademark and use of the trademark
3 Invalidity of the trademark and lawsuits that can be filed in case of trademark infringement and claims that can be made
4 General information about patent law, comparison with utility model
5 Protection of patent rights and lawsuits that can be filed in case of attack
6 Design and geographical indication
7 Intellectual and artistic works law-Copyright
8 Basic information on competitions law as a subsisary field of economics law
9 The aim of the protection of competition, resources and scope of the competition rules
10 Prohibition of cartelization and other forms of restricting competition; conditions for any prevention
11 Agreements, decisions and practices limiting competition between undertakings
12 Doctrinal interpretation of some concepts: prevention, restriction, distortion of competition, aim and effect of such agreement, decision or practice
13 Concept of exemption, reasons for an exemption regime. Conditions of individual and block exemptions
14 Concept and conditions of abuse of dominant position, restrictions on prohibition of abuse of dominant position

Recomended or Required Reading

Ünal Tekinalp, Fikri Mülkiyet Hukuku, Istanbul 2012
Rauf Karasu, Cahit Suluk, Temel Nal, Fkri Mülkiyet Hukuku, Ankara 2021
I.Yılmaz Arslan, Rekabet Hukuku Dersleri, Bursa 2008
Pelin Güven, Rekabet Hukuku-Ders Kitabı, 2009 Ankara

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecturing and presentations

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE MTEG * 1
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

Will be announced later concurrently curriculum announcements in every semester.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 12 12
Preparing assignments 3 1 3
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 4 56
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 125

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15
LO.11
LO.211
LO.31
LO.411
LO.511
LO.61
LO.71
LO.81