An ASSIGMT length 5000 WORDS weighted at 75%. An Online Discussion Contribution weighted at 25%.

An Online Discussion Contribution weighted at 25%. An ASSIGMT length 5000 WORDS weighted at 75%.

Component 1: Participants will be assessed on their individual contributions during a week long asynchronous online discussion forum (25% weighting). Learning outcomes 1, 2, & 3

Component 2: Participants will submit a 5000 word assignment (75% weighting). Learning outcomes 2, 3, 4 & 5

To pass this module, students must achieve a mark of at least 50% in both elements

Additional Assessment Details (including formative feedback / assessment)

A formative assessment will be undertaken in Seminar 5

Students are required to show an informed and at the same time critical understanding of the fundamental legal principles, both international and domestic, which apply to intellectual property in a business context:

- Undertaking a range of advanced research activity related to Intellectual Property Law

- Developing advanced level skills in writing, summarising and critical assessment.

- Reaching a critical understanding of research strategies through the comparison, evaluation and justification of quantitative and qualitative research approaches.

This module will be strongly student centred. It will be delivered through a series of 5 x 2 hour seminars supported by student research and personal study and there will be an additional 5 hours of student guidance, supervision and support. Students will follow a set pattern contained in the module handbook.

Formative assessment on the online discussion forum will be used to encourage research on the subject area.

SMALL GROUP SESSIONS

10 hours of online seminars (the seminars will be asynchronous). Students will be expected to post answers onto the discussion forum in advance of the seminar to enable wider discussion of the topic (5 hours asynchronous contact). A 'Webinar' will be held during each seminar session (5 x 1 hour asynchronous contact) based on the posted answers in order to give students generic and personal feedback and to facilitate further discussion on the topic.

DIRECTED STUDY AND INDEPENDENT LEARNING

Principally this will consist of study to consolidate and develop an understanding of material presented in whole group and online sessions, preparation for work to be undertaken prior to the webinars, and research and preparation relating to the coursework assignment. Directed study will involve the utilisation of information technology (specifically the module blackboard pages and use of relevant legal electronic databases such as Westlaw, Lexis, LawTel etc) which enables interaction with relevant material, at a pace and time convenient to the user. Students will be provided with general guidance in the module study guide and receive specific guidance and training where needed.

(135 hours)

Access to Blackboard
Internet
Access to Law Library's Electronic Resources

David I Bainbridge: Intellectual Property, Pearson 2010
Hector MacQueen, Charlotte Waelde & Graeme Laurie: Contemporary Intellectual Property, Law and Policy, OUP 2011
Margaret Dowie-Whybrow: Core Statutes on Intellectual Property, Palgrave Macmillan 2011