Intellectual Property Law

This Intellectual Property Law programme from Masaryk University is comprehensive and covering a variety of areas of professional activities in the field of law, business or administration. 

The Intellectual Property Law programme from Masaryk University aims to give the doctoral students an extensive offer of courses to help them study their preferred area(s) of interest, as broad and deep as possible.

The programme is based on common philosophic and methodologic grounds, whereas legal pragmatism provides for core methodology and information philosophy serves as substantive philosophical fundament. On this basis, there are developed relatively independent courses in main areas of intellectual property law that should provide for complex understanding of dominant regulatory phenomena of Intellectual Property law – namely copyrights, patents, trademarks and designs.

Career opportunities:

Intellectual property law is a well-established area of legal practice. Thus, it is likely that graduates of this doctoral programme will mostly aim at high-profile positions namely in professional legal service (soliciting or in-house practice) in national or multinational commercial establishment as well as in the specific administrative bodies dealing with the intellectual property law related issued (Industrial Property Office).

Nevertheless, there is a significant academic and scientific agenda in this field as well, so it is the primary aim of the programme to generate fully qualified academics and researchers and motivate them to engage in further academic work in the field of intellectual property law.

The study programme of Intellectual Property Law does not (cannot) replace professional preparation for regulated occupations (patent attorney, attorney-at-law, notary, judge etc.).

After successfully completing his/her studies the graduate is able to:

• understand and creatively analyse philosophical and methodological background of intellectual property

• understand and develop fundamental concepts of intellectual property incl. fundamental rights

• critically analyse legal regulatory framework of creative markets

• critically compare fundaments of intellectual property in dominant legal cultures of the world

• critically analyse the influence of technological and societal development on intellectual property

• understand and resolve conceptual links of intellectual property to other regulatory areas