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Research

The CIR attracts promising researchers and stimulate them to undertake fundamental research possibly leading to a doctoral dissertation or other publications.

A number of researchers have already been given the opportunity to carry out in-depth research into such areas as the legal protection of biotechnological inventions, the intellectual property rights of university inventors, copyright law in the changing culture and society of the Russian Federation, the interaction between intellectual property rights and (technical) standardisation, and the impact of the information society on intellectual property rights.

Domains of past and ongoing research

General

Exhaustion of intellectual property rights
Harmonisation of copyrights in the European Union
Illicit traffic in cultural goods
Intellectual property rights in the former Soviet Union
Intellectual property rights and standardization
Legal protection of computer programs
Online-helpdesk on problems relating to intellectual property rights in a digital environment
Intellectual Property Rights and Biodiversity
The protection and valorization of intellectual property rights in cooperation projects between universities, higher education institutes, research institutes and enterprises
Intellectual property rights on research findings obtained in development cooperation projects between universities from developed and developing countries

Industrial Property rights

Patent law

Inventions conceived by employees and university inventions
Legal protection of biotechnological inventions:
- Patentability of plants
- Patents and animals
- Patents and informed consent
- Patents and human stem cell research
- Patents and ordre public and morality
- Patent law and environment
- Patent law and ethics
- Patent and Drugs
Gene patents and public health - project description - publications - survey