| Course Name | Intellectual Property Rights for Designers |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| FFD 306 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Elective | |||||
| Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
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| Assistant(s) | - | |||||
| Course Objectives | The aim of this course is • to introduce to the students, the basic concepts of law and provide concise information on legal definition of new, original and conservable designs. • to inform them about the “ to do list” to protect a new and original design. • to ensure that the they have basic information about industrial and intellectual property rights regarding registered trademarks, patents, designs and copyrights. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | The aim of this course is to introduce to the students, the basic concepts of law and provide concise information on legal definition of new, original and conservable designs, to inform them about the “ to do list” to protect a new and original design. In addition, this course aims to ensure that they have basic information about industrial and intellectual property rights regarding registered trademarks, patents, designs and copyrights. Determining new, original and conservable design concept and to do list for protecting the registered designs. |
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| Supportive Courses | X | |
| Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Introduction – Concept of Law | None |
| 2 | Law of Persons and Law of Property | None |
| 3 | Intellectual Property Rights | None |
| 4 | Copyright Law | None |
| 5 | Industrial Design Rights | None |
| 6 | Registration Process of Industrial Designs | Checking the website of Turkısh Patent Instıtute about the registration process |
| 7 | Trademark and Patent Law | Checking the basic legislation about trademark and patent rights |
| 8 | Midterm Project | None |
| 9 | Unfair Competition | None |
| 10 | Penal aspects | None |
| 11 | Case studies | Study of the previous courses |
| 12 | Protection requirements of registered design in the European Union Law and the Turkish Law | None |
| 13 | Case studies | None |
| 14 | Repetition for the final Exam | None |
| 15 | Case studies | None |
| 16 | Final exam | None |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Academic papers and presentations related with the subjects conducted during the semester. |
| Suggested Readings/Materials | Bettig, Ronad V., Copyright Culture: The political Economy of Intellectual Property, Cahit Suluk: Tasarım Hukuku, Ankara 2003, Davenport, Neil: United Kingdom Copyright and Design Protection, London, 1993. Ünal Tekinalp; Fikri Mülkiyet Hukuku, İstanbul 2005 |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weighting |
| Participation | 1 | 10 |
| Laboratory / Application | 1 | 25 |
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | ||
| Presentation / Jury | ||
| Project | 1 | 30 |
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | ||
| Final Exam | 1 | 35 |
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 5 | 65 |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 35 |
| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 0 | ||
| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
| Portfolio | |||
| Homework / Assignments | |||
| Presentation / Jury | |||
| Project | 1 | 30 | |
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | |||
| Final Exams | 1 | 32 | |
| Total | 110 |
| # | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | To be able to develop and design a collection independently. | X | ||||
| 2 | To be able to do maintain a design research individually or as a team. | X | ||||
| 3 | To be able to develop entrepreneurship- and managerial skills for a future professional practice. | X | ||||
| 4 | To be able to understand, interpret and apply theoretical knowledge in fashion and textile design. | X | ||||
| 5 | To be able to analyze and integrate the particular local and regional needs and of their profession. | X | ||||
| 6 | To be able to obtain a multidisciplinary point of view, follow and analyze the new issues, changes and trends in contemporary design and art in such a way that they can be integrated into design practice. | X | ||||
| 7 | To be able to apply industrial requirements, knowledge of material & usage and know-how knowledge in the creation of high quality fashion products. | X | ||||
| 8 | To be able to use digital information and communication technologies at a level that is adequate to the discipline of fashion and textile design. | X | ||||
| 9 | To be able to develop an ongoing analytical and professional approach to academic and design research. | X | ||||
| 10 | To be able to recognize the need and importance of a personal lifelong learning attitude towards their chosen area of interest. | X | ||||
| 11 | To be able to collect data in the areas of fashion and textile design and communicate with colleagues in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1). | X | ||||
| 12 | To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently. | X | ||||
| 13 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest
