Exchange program
The Intellectual Property and Digital Law Master's program offers 2nd year students the opportunity to travel to Quebec to follow three courses offered by the University of Sherbrooke , and to complete an internship. The Université de Sherbrooke assists students in their search for an internship.
Fluency in English is essential.
Program
Course: Patents, innovation and technology transfer (3 ECTS)
Training target(s)
Acquire knowledge of the development and commercialization process for new technologies in the life sciences; learn how to draft technology transfer agreements; acquire knowledge of marketing strategies for new technologies in the life sciences; develop the legal and political reflexes needed to accelerate the development, implementation and access to new technologies in the life sciences.
Contents
Study of the value chain for new technologies in the life sciences, incentives and disincentives to the development and commercialization of new technologies in a given system, intellectual property policies of universities and research centers located in Quebec, Canada and other jurisdictions, research subsidies, clinical trial approval policies, etc.Study of barriers to the implementation of new scientific technologies, legal rules underlying the drafting of technology transfer agreements such as confidentiality agreements, material transfer agreements, research agreements, licenses and distribution contracts in the life sciences field; drafting of agreements and study of emerging models for access to scientific data and new technologies.
Course: Digital Data and Life Sciences (3 ECTS)
Training target(s)
Become familiar with the normative and ethical framework applicable to digital data in the life sciences; understand the issues related to data confidentiality and security in a digital context; recognize and examine the issues related to new information technologies and new business models; explore the legal and ethical challenges related to digitization in the life sciences; apply knowledge to concrete situations.
Contents
Information technology law applied to the life sciences; protection of confidential information in the life sciences; privacy and access to information in the life sciences; cybersecurity and information security in the life sciences; challenges of new business models in the life sciences (artificial intelligence, megadata, biometrics, open data, connected objects, etc.).
Course: Legal communication (tutorials) (3 ECTS)
Under the supervision of Pr. M. Bourassa-Forcier
Training target(s)
Acquire and develop analytical, research and written or oral communication techniques to consolidate and build on the methodological training already underway.
Contents
File organization: information gathering, choice of interventions, information processing. Computerized documentary retrieval, whatever the medium.