Business innovation

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Lectures. Assessment: research paper that will be analyzed and argued over with the other students

Learning Outcomes

To provide students with knowledge on industrial property rights relating to the medical drugs business.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

PART I

Reference drugs and generic drugs.

Industrial property and medical drugs.

Patenting of drugs, and patenting of processes for obtaining medical drugs and using them

Other mechanisms and industrial property rights involved in drug business: supplementary certificate for the protection of medical drugs for human use, exclusive marketing rights, legal regime governing test data protection

Pharmaceutical patents and mechanisms for dispute resolution

The Portuguese arbitration regime on disputes between generic drug companies and reference drug companies

European competition law and drug business subject to patent rights or supplementary protection certificates

PART II

Introduction to trade marks theory

Firms

(National, or EU) Brands

 Logos

Ûnfair competition - Introduction

Classical legal regime governing unfair competition

Head Lecturer(s)

João Paulo Fernandes Remédio Marques

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 100.0%

Bibliography

MARQUES, J. P. REMÉDIO MARQUES, Medicamentos versus Patentes – Estudos de Propriedade Industrial, Coimbra Editora, 2008. MARQUES, J. P. REMÉDIO, “A Apreciação da Validade de Patentes (Certificados Complementares de Proteção)por Tribunal arbitral Necessário – Excepção versus Reconvenção na Lei n.º 62/2011”, in Boletim da FDUC, vol. 87 (2011), pp. 179-212.MARQUES, J. P. REMÉDIO, “Arbitragem Necessária e Patentes Farmacêuticas em Portugal:Questões não Resolvidas na Lei n.º 62/2011” in Libro de Homenage al Professor J. A. GÓMEZ SEGADE, Martial Pons, 2013. M. NOGUEIRA SERENS, A monopolização da concorrência e a re emergência da tutela da marca, Almedina, 2007.M. NOGUEIRA SERENS, “Despublicização do risco de confusão (também) em matéria de firmas?”, RLJ, ano 141.º, 2012, Coimbra Editora, p. 366 s. M. NOGUEIRA SERENS“Sobre a ‘teoria da diluição da marca’ no direito norte americano”, in: Nos 20 anos do Código das Sociedades Comerciais, vol. I, Congresso Empresas e Sociedade, Coimbra Edi