upGrad - LL.M. in Intellectual Property & Technology Law 

offered by OP Jindal Global University

Legal Research & Writing

The Legal System: Foundations, Institutions & Processes

Statutory Law & Interpretation

Case Law & Precedents

Judicial Public Policy Making: Common Law & Judicial Activism

Research in a Law Firm: Due Diligence, Memos & Advices

Globalization and its effects on the development of International Commercial & Economic Law

Challenges of Globalization to Law & Justice

Formulation & Settlement of Transnational Norms & Practices

Individual Rights vis-à-vis Free Market Principles & State Capitalism

Dierences between Public and Private Law

Varying ideological interpretations of property rights

Interconnections between contractual, national, and international law frameworks

The regulation of foreign investment and private property

Standards of protection under international investment treaties

Investor-state arbitration

Justification, subject-matter, and overview of Intellectual Property Laws

Patent Law and the concern relating to Right to Health

Concerns of developing countries relating to International Transfer of Technology

Trademark Law and issues relating to Trademark in Cyberspace: Trademark vs. Domain names, Domain name disputes, Cyber-squatting, Typo-squatting, dilution, meta-tagging, linking

Copyright and issues relating to Copyright in Cyberspace

Liability of Intermediaries under the IT Act

Jurisdictional Issues in Cyberspace

Introduction to Intellectual property in the information technology age

Artificial Intelligence and IP

Blockchain and IP

Biotechnology and IP

Other areas such as 3D printing, virtual reality, and IP

The way forward for new technologies and IP

Originality and Joint Authorship in Musical Works

Economic Rights of the owner of Copyright (Mechanical Rights, Distribution Rights, Derivative Rights, Performance Rights)

Non-Economic Rights (Moral Rights)

Digitalisation of Music

Infringement of Musical Works

Evolution of the IIL regime to enable protection of IP rights under international law

Significance and consequences of IP as a protected investment in BITs and FTA investment chapters

Evaluation of IP-related regulatory measures (such as compulsory licensing) liable to challenge by foreign investors before ISDS tribunals

Relative and absolute standards of an investment treaty, used by foreign investors to challenge IP-related regulatory measures

Relationship between the IIL regime and other international law instruments on IP, such as the TRIPS Agreement

Evolving treaty practice of States on IP within the IIL regime

Evolution of International IP Law and Policy in context of Global Public Health

Basics of International IP Regime including treaties, agreements (TRIPS, Doha Declaration, Paris Convention, Bilateral Investment Treaties) and international institutions (WTO, WIPO, WHO, etc.)

IP-trade linkage issues (IP and International Economic law) and its impact on Global Public Health outcomes

Flexibilities within Intellectual Property globalization (Compulsory Licensing, Anti-evergreening Patentability Standards, etc.) as well as alternatives to the current framework (Open Science, Patent Pooling, Prizes, etc.)

Role of IP laws in issues of Equitable Access and Social Justice that shape the current discourse as part of the wider debate about Global Public Health

Data Protection Principles

Rights of the Data Subject

Controller and Processor

Transfers of Personal Data to Third Countries

Independent Supervisory Authorities

Remedies, Liability, and Penalties

Case Studies