The Office for Human Resources Management & Development in collaboration with the Corporate Research & Knowledge Transfer Office will be providing the following training workshop for UM staff.
Tutors: Dr Ruth Vella Falzon and Dr Ing. Anton Bartolo
Target audience: UM academic staff and researchers
Duration: 6 hours - this workshop is split into two sessions. Attendance is required for both sessions.
Delivery Method: Classroom-based
Dates: Thursday 10 and 17 March
Time: 09:00 - 12:00
Intellectual Property (IP) is a term frequently bandied about without much understanding of its meaning and implications. The concept of IP is crucial to the existence of universities and their academic programmes, yet even here the awareness and understanding is often lacking. The aim of this workshop is to give the participant an understanding of IP, explain the legal basis around IP Rights (IPR) and discuss practical applications of IP and IPR within and outside universities.
By the end of this workshop, participants should be able to understand:
- understand the meaning of intellectual property
- understand the value of intellectual property
- appreciate intellectual property rights and their legal basis
- understand IP and IPR in practical situations (plagiarism, journal submission agreements and the copyright obligations and implications therein, studies involving data owned by a third party, confidentiality embargo, publication vs. protection of IP, publications and IP in collaboration and contract research projects).