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The Brunel Intellectual Property Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) is a unique, part-time programme with two separate routes designed for trainee patent attorneys with STEM degrees or for trainee trade mark attorneys. It is also suitable for people wishing to pursue a more general career in intellectual property law and practice.
The PGCert is accredited with IPREG and provides two separate routes of Foundation Level Qualification (Patents) and a Foundation Level Qualification (Trademarks). Candidates may undertake either one or the other as part of the PgCert programme or combine the two FLQs in Patents and Trademarks as part of an LLM in Intellectual Property.
In addition, Intellectual Property PgCert alumni have the option to upgrade to an LLM in Intellectual Property should they choose to re-enrol as returning students within the first five years after their graduation from Brunel.
You will get a comprehensive overview of the theoretical, practical and management aspects of intellectual property at both national and international levels with a solid grounding in: Basic rules and principles of intellectual property law as well as the nature and scope of these rights Procedures for the granting and recognition of these rights Mechanisms for the enforcement of these rights Patents, copyrights, trademarks and contract resolution.
The course is suitable for law graduates and those with backgrounds in the sciences, technology, engineering and business. Non-graduates currently working in the area of intellectual property are also considered. No prior legal knowledge is required as you will be introduced to the essential legal principles throughout the course. As this is a part-time, you can remain in full-time employment while you study. UK employers currently sponsor over 80% of students taking the course.
You will leave Brunel with a firm grounding in Intellectual Property Law. After you graduate, you will be well equipped to get into the specialist area of intellectual property as a practitioner or adviser at national or international level or as a lawyer, patent or trademark attorney, IP portfolio manager, IP examiner, or IP paralegal.
Students need to have a 2:2 (or above) UK Honours degree, or equivalent internationally recognised qualification, in Law, Sciences, Engineering, Technology and Humanities (i.e. Psychology; Sociology). Other related disciplines and qualifications, in conjunction with patents and intellectual property work experience, will be considered.
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£401 month
Students from Domestic
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£620 month
Students from EU
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£620 month
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