Journal of Intellectual Property and Innovation Management (JIPIM) - Aims and Scope

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Journal of Intellectual Property and Innovation Management aims to publish theoretical and applied research and studies in the field of intellectual property in its different forms and its link to innovation management and sustainable development.

List of Journal topics :

International Intellectual Property Law:

  • Patent Cooperation Agreement (the 1970 Washington Convention).
  • The Madrid Treaty on the International Registration of Marks (London Amendment 1934), and the 1989 Madrid Protocol.
  • The Hague Convention Concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs (1999 Geneva Amend men).
  • Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure (Budapest Treaty of 1977).
  • Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration.
  • PCT patent cooperation agreement.

Patents:

  • Patents.
  • Utility mod Industrial designs:

Industrial designs:

  • Industrial designs.
  • Civil and criminal protection for industrial designs and geographical indications.

Biotechnology and Intellectual Property :

  • Biotechnology and its importance in the field of agriculture, food and pharmaceutical industries.
  • Patentability of biotechnology inventions.
  • The Convention on Biological Diversity.
  • Budapest Convention on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure, 1977.
  • Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).

Enforcement and litigation of intellectual property laws :

  • National laws for the protection and exploitation of intellectual property rights.
  • Administrative, criminal and civil procedures.
  • The temporary and conservative measures in case of intellectual property rights infringements.
  • Determine the law applicable to contracts of exploitation of patents, utility models, trademarks, industrial designs and models, copyright and related rights disputes.
  • Conflict of laws regarding civil liability for compensation for damages resulting from the use of technological applications for various intellectual property rights.

Criminal Law and Intellectual Property:

Intellectual property in the medical and pharmaceutical fields:

Copyright and related rights:

  • Copyright.
  • The rights of the performers.
  • Producers of audio recordings.
  • Broadcasting organizations.
  • The relationship of related rights to copyright and their legal nature.
  • International Convention for the Protection of Performers and Producers of Phonograms (1961 Rome Convention).
  • Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement.
  • Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances (Beijing Treaty 2012).

Intellectual property in the economic theory:

  • Intellectual property and the argument for market failure.
  • Intellectual property and resource allocation.
  • Intellectual property, international trade and parallel imports.
  • Intellectual property between competition and monopoly.
  • Intellectual property between protection and infringement.
  • The economic importance of protecting intellectual property.
  • The optimum duration or term of intellectual property protection.
  • The economic implications of protecting intellectual property.
  • The economic philosophy behind the violation of intellectual property rights.
  • Determinants of expected losses from infringement of intellectual property.

Creativity and Intellectual Property Management:

  • Managing creativity and intellectual property rights.
  • Ways to encourage and spread innovation.
  • Managing the basic rights of the creator, innovator and society.
  • Efficient management of intellectual property rights, creativity and economic growth.
  • Methods for promoting, developing and managing intellectual property assets.
  • Managing the risks of infringements on the rights of creators and inventors.
  • How to convert intellectual property into assets that have a financial value.
  • Determinants of licensing of intellectual property rights.
  • Cost / benefit  analysis of intellectual property assets.

Licensing contracts, exploitation of intellectual property rights and technology transfer:

  • Copyright contract, distribution, satellite broadcasting rights, and public performance.
  • How to conclude, negotiate, and edit these contracts, and determine the rights and obligations of all intellectual property producers and those wishing to exploit them, and how those contracts end, terminate and stop their implementation, and the penalties prescribed for any party’s breach of its contractual obligations.
  • Modern contracts for the exploitation of intellectual property rights, such as Franchising or franchising contracts, licensing contracts, technical assistance contracts, and turnkey contracts.

Protection of intellectual property via digital media:

  • Digital media, the Internet, and various information and social networks.
  • Types and circulation of files and folders across that media, information security and data protection.
  • Information management systems.
  • Harmonization between intellectual property and the digital environment.
  • Online trademarks.
  • Literary and artistic works and ways to protect them via digital media.
  • WIPO Treaty on Copyright, and Concerning Public Performers 1996 (the two Internet agreements), patents and utility models in the digital age.
  • Technical protection measures and electronic information.
  • National legislation and international agreements for the protection of technological innovations and digital and literary creations via digital media.

Practical applications in the patent field:

  • Patent information and the importance of the information embodied in the patent.
  • Searching on databases (practical examples).
  • Utilizing the information in the patent application in line with the developmental dimension.
  •  Drafting the patent application and the components of a patent application.
  • Formulation of protection elements and their impact on the scope of protection.
  • Studying the application process procedures in the patent office.

Marks, commercial data and geographical indications:

  • Trademark and its functions.
  • Types of trademarks: commodity mark and service mark.
  • Different forms of brands,
  • The three-dimensional mark (the three-dimensional mark).
  •  Voice tag.
  • Smell mark.
  •  Conditions and procedures for trademark registration.
  • The Well-known trademark.
  • Acquiring ownership of the trademark, rights conferring it on its owner, and exceptions.
  •  The most important actions that respond to a trademark, with attention to contracts for the sale of trademarks, mortgaging them and licensing their use.
  •  Trademark lapse and civil and criminal protection for the trademark.

Economic valuation of intellectual property assets:

  • Market value, historical value and fair value of intellectual property assets.
  • Justifications for the existence of economic value behind intellectual property assets.
  • Different approaches to valuating intellectual property assets: quantitative entries such as a cost-based approach - income-based approach (the discounted cash flow method - joint capital - royalty) - a market-based approach - an optional entry and non-quantitative (descriptive) entries that depend on the expertise component .
  •  The importance of valuing intellectual property assets.
  • Principles of reviewing intellectual property assets.

Competition and Intellectual Property Law:

  • Competition and its importance in raising the efficiency of productive and service institutions.
  • Legitimate and unlawful competition in the field of intellectual property rights’ exploitation.
  • Forms of monopolistic practices, and agreements restricting competition, and an indication of the so-called dominant and monopolistic position and its criminalization.
  • Regulation of competition and the prevention of monopolistic practices.
  • The role of these laws and legislations in combating anti-competitive practices exercised by the owners of intellectual property rights, with the exclusive powers they have in the commercial and industrial exploitation of those rights.
  • The role of the state and the agencies for the protection of competition in combating and preventing monopolistic practices, their powers in this regard, and the penalties that those who carry out such practices are exposed to.

Settlements of intellectual property disputes:

  • The rules and principles governing methods of settling disputes without submitting them to the courts, such as negotiations and negotiation strategies.
  • Conciliation, selection of the conciliator, conciliation procedures, the role of conciliator, mediation, mediation procedures, the mediator's task, conciliation, disputes in which reconciliation is permissible, and how the conciliation contract is concluded and its effects.
  • Arbitration and conclusion of the arbitration agreement, its binding force, its personal and objective scope, arbitration litigation procedures, and the formation of the arbitration panel.
  • The law applicable to the arbitration procedures and the subject matter of the dispute, the issuance of the arbitration award, and how to implement it.
  • The role of friendly methods and arbitration in settling intellectual property rights disputes within the framework of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the mechanisms for their implementation and recourse to them.

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