University of Asia Pacific

Department of Law and Human Rights

Lesson Plan
Course Code & Title: Law 349 :Cyber Law and Intellectual Property Law
Semester: 3
rd
Year 2
nd
Semester
Teacher: Sumaya Kowser
Office/Room: Bikolpo Tower (5
th floor
), House No. , Road no 5/A, Dhanmondi, Dhaka.
Consultation/Contact
Time:


Day 1(Sun day)
11.00 A. M to 1.00 P.M.
Day 2( Mon day)
11.0 P.M. to 1.00 P.M.
Day 3( Tues day)
10.0 P.M to 12.00 P.M.
Day 4( Wednesday)
2.00 A.M. to 4.00 P.M.
Day 5(Thurs day)
2.00 A.M. to 4.00 P.M.
Email: sumaya@uap-bd.edu
Mobile: 01712634767
Course Overview:


Cyber Law and Intellectual property delivers the different concept to protect
intellectual activities through the copy right, patent, industrial design,
trademarks and other branches of Intellectual property law. The cyber law
also covers the field of our cyber activities. such as-Internet system, data,
data message, tele-communication system etc.
Course Outline:


Cyber Law:-
To understand how developments in information technology are providing
a new working environment for professionals and be able engage in a
critical debate about that impact.
To demonstrate a practical, skills based, understanding of the demands
required of prospective professionals in this new working environment.
To understand the necessity for the law to adopt new strategies and
perspectives in order to approach the legal implications of developments in
cyber space.
To understand the main substantive law issues those are now being
referred to as cyber law.
To understand the substantive law issues that arises from the introduction
of information technology.
The student should read the following outlines-
1. Cyber Space and Life in the Information Age - General Introduction to
the Course and a Brief Exploration of the Societal Impact of the
Information Technology Revolution.
2. Cyber Lawyers: It and the legal profession - The Impact of Information
Technology upon the Legal Profession.
3. Cyber Crimes: the Darker side of Cyber Space - The Contours of Cyber
Crimes
- Comparing Cyber Crimes with Traditional Crimes - the Cyber Police.
4. Cyber Properties: Intellectual Properties in Cyber Space - The
Growing Importance of Ideas as Valuable Property - Exploitation -
Protection - Enrichment.
5. Cyber Constitutionalism- The Constitutional Implications of Cyberspace
6. Cyber Governance- Policing and Regulating the Internet
7. Cyber Speech - General Speech related Issues, Freedom of Speech, Hate
Speech, the Debates over Pornography and the Internet.
8. Cyber Privacy- Privacy issues relating to the Internet
9. Cyber Conflicts - The Problem of Defamation in Cyberspace
10. Cyber Trade - The Law relating to some aspects of Trading over the
Internet.
Intellectual Property Law:-
The Concept of Intellectual Property; Copy Right: Origin and Development of
Copyright Law; Rights protected by Copyright; Copyright Infringement,
Remedies; Industrial Property; Patent and Duration of Patent, Other Lands of
Patents. Infringement and Remedies; Trademarks: Definition of Trademarks,
Functions of Trademarks; Acquisition of Trademark Rights, Infringement of
Trademarks; Industrial Design; Role and Contribution of Intellectual Property;
International Co-operation in Intellectual Property; World Intellectual Property
Organization; Paris Convention for the Protection of Intellectual Property, and
other Conventions; Intellectual Property Litigation; New Development in
Intellectual Property; Computer Programs, Integrated Circuits, Reprography,
Broadcasting Innovations.
Course objectives:


To learn the several aspects of Cyber and intellectual property law so that
the students as well as the learner can easily gather their knowledge to
protect their intellectual activities as well as to protect the intellectual
wealth of a particular state.
Teaching Method: Lectures, assignments, interactive sessions, field trips etc.
Prerequisites: N/A
Course schedule/ Class schedule
Week Class Date Topic Reading
assignment
Work
assignment
1
03-11-13 Historical Background of IPL, Introduction to
the national and international legislations on
IPL, Features of IP and IPL and Objectives.
International
legislations on
IPL, Features
of IP and IPL
and Objectives
of IPL,
Different
provisions of
Berne
convention.
N/A
04-11-13 Subjects protected by IPL, conceptual ideas
on copyright, patent, industrial design,
trademarks.
05-11-13 Copy Right In national and International
perspective and its fair use, Different
provisions of Berne convention.
06-11-13 Different terms and sections of Copyright
Act, 2000.
2 10-11-13 Different terms and sections of Copyright
Act, 2000.( transfer of authorship : terms,
license, assignment)
Different terms
and sections of
Copyright Act,
2000, piracy
and its effect in
society.
What is copy
Right? Is copy
Right Act,
2000 sufficient
for BD? What
are the
loopholes of
this Act to
meet up the
demand of the
society?
11-11-13 Author, requirements to be an author, piracy
and its effect in society.
12-11-13 Patent: Definition, Objects, patents criteria.
13-11-13 Holiday (Ashura)
3 17-11-13 Tutorial No. 1 Practical
Aspects of
Drafting Patent
application,
Examination of
P.A., Search,
Grant and
publication.
N/A
18-11-13 Novelty, Inventive steps, industrial
application and case references.
19-11-13 Practical Aspects of Drafting Patent
application, Examination of P.A.
20-11-13 Search, Grant and publication
4



24-11-13 unfair Competition and its protection. license, kinds
of license,
avoidance of
restrictive
conditions,
N/A
25-11-13 Mortgage, license, kinds of license,
avoidance of restrictive conditions, Abuse of
patent rights, compulsory license, causes to
compulsory license
26-11-13 Mortgage, license, kinds of license,
avoidance of restrictive conditions, Abuse of
patent rights, compulsory license, causes to
compulsory license
Abuse of patent
rights,
compulsory
license, causes
to compulsory
license
27-11-13 Revocation and surrender of patent: modes of
revocation of patent, revocation of patent by
an interested person
5 01-12-13 Infringement of patent modes of
Infringement, Action for Infringement,
Remedies to the plaintiff,
Different terms
and sections of
Patent Act,
1911.
Define the
concept of
patent? If any
person
Infringement of
patent rights,
what will be the
remedy which
has been
described in the
patent Act
1911?Is the law
sufficient for
BD?
02-12-13 Different terms and sections of Patent Act,
1911
03-12-13 Different terms and sections of Patent Act,
1911.
04-12-13 Different terms and sections of Patent Act,
1911.
6 08-12-13 Patent co-operation Treaty.(PCT) Patent co-
operation
Treaty.(PCT)
N/A
09-12-13 Patent co-operation Treaty.(PCT)
10-12-13 Tutorial No. 2
11-12-13 Industrial design: objectives, definition,
model law by WIPO, right to registration
7

15-12-13 Presentation& VIVA. N/A N/A
16-12-13 Holiday( Victory Day)
17-12-13 Presentation& VIVA.
18-12-13 Functional means, prohibition, criteria for
registration.
MID TERM EXAM
8 29-12-13 Rights granted, restrictions on these rights,
cancellation of design, piracy and remedies
Different terms
of Income from
agriculture.
N/A
30-12-13 Trade mark: features, definition, certification
mark, main features of certification marks,
collective marks
31-01-14 Trade secret
01-01-14 Trade secret
9 05-01-14 Function of trade mark, features of a good
trade mark
When a trade
mark will not be
registered &
related case
references,
transfer of
trademark.
Give a
elaborate
concept about
the
Distinctiveness,
Deceptive
similarity of a
Trade Mark.
What are the
differences
between the
two concepts?
06-01-14 Distinctiveness, Deceptive similarity of a
Trade Mark.
07-01-14 When a trade mark will not be registered &
related case references , transfer of
trademark,
08-01-14 ways of transferring, procedures, difference
between assignment and licensing
10 12-01-14 Different terms and sections of Trade
Mark Act 2009.
Different terms
and sections of
Trade Mark
Act 2009.
N/A
13-01-14 Different terms and sections of Trade
Mark Act 2009.
14-01-14 Different terms and sections of Trade
Mark Act 2009.
15-01-14 Different terms and sections of Trade
Mark Act 2009.
11




19-01-14 Tutorial No. 3 Berne
Convention,
PCT, Trips
agreement
N/A
20-01-14 Passing Off, necessity, means adopted for
passing off, difference between passing off
and infringement of trade mark
21-01-14 WIPO: Berne Convention
22-01-14 WIPO: PCT, Trips agreement
12 26-01-14 WIPO: UPOV, Plant varieties and Farmers
rights
ICT Act-2006 N/A
27-01-14 Cyber law and cyber space, Necessity of
Cyber Law, Scope of Cyber Law.
28-01-14 ICT Act-2006
29-01-14 ICT Act-2006
13 02-02-14 Tutorial No. 4 Telecommunicat
ion Act, 2001
N/A
03-02-14 ICT Act-2006
04-02-14 Different types of Cyber Crime in BD
05-02-14 Telecommunication Act, 2001
14





09-02-14 Presentation & Viva N/A What are the
crimes
described in
the ICT Act,
2006 &
Telecommunic
ation Act,
2001? Do you
think that there
should need
any amendment
for the sake of
the society? If
so, what should
be their nature?
10-02-14 Telecommunication Act,2001
11-02-14 Review class-1
12-02-14 Review class-2
FINAL EXAM
Basic text(s):



1. The WIPO Hand Book On IPL.
2. P.Narayanan : Intellectual Property Law.
3. The Information & Telecommunication Technology Act
(ICT), 2006.
4. The Telecommunication Act, 2001.

Reference text(s):




1. Yatandra Singh : Cyber law.
2. Zulfiquar Ahmed : A Text Book on Cyber Law in
Bangladesh.

3. Sayeed Raas Maswod : A Handbook on Laws of
Intellectual Property
Additional reading material: N/A
Assessment / Assignment Methods:
Marks for assessment will be given by the course teacher through
class tests, quizzes, assignments, presentation, class performance,
class attendance etc. There should be at least (n+1) where n is the
number of class tests for a course. The course teacher must submit a
copy of marks of Assessment (mentioning the fractions in class tests,
quizzes etc.) of his course to the Head of the respective departments.
Quiz Test: Description of components of
assessment (Class test, class participation,
midterm, final exams etc) 100%
Assessment Marks 30 includes: Class test/
Assignment 10+ Class attendance 10 + Class
performance & Viva voce 10.

Total Marks 100 includes : Assessment 30+
Midterm examination 20+ Final Examination
50
Grading Systems:
Each course has a letter grade equivalent to a certain number of grade
points. Letter grades and their corresponding grade points are as
follows:

Numerical Grade Letter
Grade
Grade Point
80% and above A+ 4.00
75% to less than 80% A 3.75
70% to less than 75% A+ 3.50
65% to less than 70% A- 3.25
60% to less than 65% B 3.00
55% to less than 60% B- 2.75
50% to less than 55% C+ 2.50
45% to less than 50% C 2.25
40% to less than 45% D 2.00
Less than 40% F 0.00
Exemption E --
Incomplete I --
Satisfactory S --

Grading systems to be followed for the course
Students responsibilities:



The students should attain the classes regularly
and fulfill their work and reading assignments
according to the instructions to extract the
most out of the course.


Sumaya Kowser
Lecturer
Department of Law and Human Rights
University of Asia Pacific