Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/University of Toronto/Intellectual Property: Copyright, Patent, and Trademark Law (WI13)/Course description

Information is as basic to the knowledge economy as natural resources were to the industrial economy and human resources to the service economy. The greater is the dependence of the economy on new information, the more critical are the institutions that manage its creation, use and exchange. Yet the law creates rights over information (known as intellectual property (IP) rights) much differently than it does over goods or services. The rationale and means for IP rights constitute the subjects of this course. The course will focus on the three principal areas of IP law: copyright, patents and trademarks, it will discuss their theoretical foundations and key concepts and doctrines.

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