HERBST- TRIMESTER 2013 - Bucerius Law School

BUCERIUS/WHU MASTER OF LAW AND BUSINESS
JOACHIM HERZ PROGRAM COURSES
BUCERIUS/WHU MASTER OF LAW AND BUSINESS
JOACHIM HERZ PROGRAM COURSES
Legal Aspects of Corporate Governance
Patent and Licensing Law
Dr. Carsten Jungmann
Christian Stoll
Content: Corporate Governance questions
typically arise when a business is getting
more mature, is constantly growing and/or
is getting more and more characterized by
a rather dispersed ownership. In all these
cases, the (executive) directors’ fiduciary
duties as well as the tasks and rights of
those controlling the management (nonexecutive
directors, members of the supervisory
board, shareholders) are gaining
importance.
The course will focus on corporate governance
in (listed) stock corporations and will
deal in detail with the German and the UK
Corporate Governance Code. Major issues
discussed range from the monitoring role
of individual and institutional shareholders,
legal rules concerning the transparency
of the corporation, liability of the management,
the business judgment rule and the
legal framework for direct and derivative
suits to the role of the auditors of the corporation
and the rights and duties of the
supervisory board.
As corporate governance today must be
seen in a comparative context, recent international
trends will be taken into account.
The reading material will contain a number
of European and US case studies as prominent
examples of corporate failures.
Credits: 2 ECTS
Open to: MLB students
Location: 0.01 Hogan Lovells Lecture Room
Content: Patent law determines to what extent
technical innovations may be used and
monopolized by one person or company in
exclusion of others. This course examines
the legal requirements for obtaining a patent,
for which developments a patent is
available, the legal effects of a patent, how
patents are enforced under German law
and under the European Patent Convention
and the attack and defense strategies
in patent litigation. How patent application
strategies, complementary know-how protection
and patent litigation can be used
to maximize the value of a company‘s research
and development will be examined.
These topics will be studied on the basis of
several practical examples.
In a second part of the course, the law on
IP licensing and the provisions of license
agreements will be studied on the basis of
several practical examples. This part of the
course will deal with the rights and obligations
of the licensor and the licensee under
a license agreement, the statutory limits
of license agreements, in particular under
European competition law, and the structure
of international license agreements.
Credits: 2 ECTS
Open to: MLB students
Location: 0.01 Hogan Lovells Lecture Room
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