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Intellectual Property Law Postgraduate Certificate

Intellectual Property Law Postgraduate Certificate

Different course options

Part time | Brunel University London | 1 year | 30-SEP-24

Study mode

Part time

Duration

1 year

Start date

30-SEP-24

Key information
DATA SOURCE : IDP Connect

Qualification type

Postgraduate Certificate

Subject areas

Intellectual Property

Course type

Taught

Course Summary

Overview

The Brunel Intellectual Property Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) is a unique, part-time programme with two separate routes designed for trainee patent attorneys with STEM degrees or for trainee trade mark attorneys. It is also suitable for people wishing to pursue a more general career in intellectual property law and practice.

The PGCert is accredited with IPREG and provides two separate routes of Foundation Level Qualification (Patents) and a Foundation Level Qualification (Trade Marks). Candidates may undertake either one or the other as part of the PgCert programme or combine the two FLQs in Patents and Trade Marks as part of an LLM in Intellectual Property.

In addition, Intellectual Property PgCert alumni have the option to upgrade to an LLM in Intellectual Property should they choose to re-enrol as returning students within the first five years after their graduation from Brunel.

You will get a comprehensive overview of the theoretical, practical and management aspects of intellectual property, at both national and international levels, with a solid grounding in:

  • the basic rules and principles of intellectual property law as well as the nature and scope of these rights
  • the procedures for the granting and recognition of these rights
  • the mechanisms for the enforcement of these rights
  • patents, copyrights, trademarks and contract resolution

Careers and your future

You will leave Brunel with a firm grounding in Intellectual Property Law. After you graduate you will be well equipped to get into the specialist area of Intellectual Property as a practitioner or adviser at national or international level or as a lawyer, patent or trademark attorney, IP portfolio manager, IP examiner, or IP paralegal.

Modules

This module aims to provide you with essential knowledge about UK copyright law and trade mark law in the context of EU and international obligations. It seeks to explain the rationale of copyright and industrial design, nature and scope of such rights, procedures, both national and supranational, for the granting and recognition of the rights, and mechanisms for enforcement as well as defences against enforcement.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£4,580

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£7,085

Entry requirements

A 2:2 (or above) UK Honours degree, or equivalent internationally recognised qualification, in Law, Sciences, Engineering, Technology and Humanities (i.e. Psychology; Sociology).

University information

Brunel University London, founded in 1966, is a leading technology university renowned for its education and research, as well as its spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship. Based in a single, leafy campus in west London, it provides outstanding sports facilities, easy access to central London, and a friendly, vibrant, and strikingly international community. The university is ranked 1st in the UK, 4th in the world for 'International...more

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