Intellectual Property Strategy

Catalog description

Concepts and techniques of strategic management are examined and applied to relevant cases involving the management of intellectual property as applied to a wide range of industries and innovations. The course will begin with a brief overview/review of some principals of management strategy. We will then survey the types of intellectual property, and some of the laws that support exclusivity in intellectual property rights. This will provide the foundation for more in-depth discussion of the relevant issues and examination of how companies and individual innovators utilize intellectual property to protect their innovations and profit from them. Course lecture and discussion will focus on the strategic uses of various forms of intellectual property, including patents, trade names, trade secrets, and copyrights. Students will explore the use and importance of intellectual property in building and sustaining a competitive advantage, as well as strategies used to realize the highest value from intellectual property.