BUS216: Technology and the Law

This unit is intended for workers concerned with the creation or exploitation of new technology and resulting products or services. Topics: a consideration of the nature of technology and forms of legal protection, international treaties protecting intellectual property, technology transfer for different forms of intellectual property, patents and the underlying jurisprudence and economics, law and the Internet; digital signatures, standard encryption, data protection and privacy, copyright and the Internet, patents for computers, trademarks and the Internet.

Points	4
Enrolment Options	Murdoch: S2-internal
Contact Time	Lectures: 2 hours per week; tutorials: 1 hour per week.
Prerequisites	BUS165 Principles of Commercial Law.
School	School of Business
Unit Coordinator	Dr Judith Thomson Position: Snr Lecturer - Commercial Law E-mail: J.Thomson@murdoch.edu.au Location: Murdoch Campus Economics, Commerce and Law Room 3.026 Phone: Prefix: +618 9360 6034
Unit Contacts	Contact Phone Prefix: +618 Location Explanation of Location Codes Teaching Period(s) Dr Judith Thomson Snr Lecturer - Commercial Law (J.Thomson@murdoch.edu.au) 9360 6034 Murdoch Campus Economics, Commerce and Law Room 3.026 MURDOCH S2: Internal (02/08/2010 - 26/11/2010)

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Key to Offshore Campus Location abbreviations: APMISIN Asia Pacific Management Institute (Singapore) CEJTOKYO Chiropractic Education Japan (Tokyo) JKURASHIKI NET Corporation (Kurashiki, Japan) KDUPG KDU College (Penang, Malaysia) KDUPJ KDU College (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia) SGP-REPOLY Republic Polytechnic (Singapore) SMANUFED Singapore Manufacturing Federation ZHENGZHOU Zhengzhou University (China)