COMP6032 Week 08 Lab B

Students worked on the assignments

COMP6032 Class 08.2

Only one student turned up. I answered some questions about the assessment.

But I wasn't prepared to give a lecture to one studebt, so I cancelled

LEGS8007 Class 08.2 & 08.3

Part 17

We looked at the trademark registration process. We examined the Nice classification for products and services.  We looked at some well know Irish marks and the classes for which they were registered.  Students completed an exercise with random pages from a catalog and we learned that electrical and non-electrical doorbells, for example,  are in different classes.  Sometimes it's necessary to consult the detailed listings.

Part 18

What can be a trademark? We looked at the Sieckmann Criteria and considered smells and single colours.  I explained the concept of acquired distinctiveness through use.

LEGS8007 Week 08 Tutorial

Nobody turned up

COMP8035 Class 08.1

The task for this week is to write the conclusion for the paper and post it to the blog. This should be 300-500 words.

Students may submit a draft of the paper up to noon on 7 April.  I will try go give feedback on those drafts.  There are no marks for the draft.

The final paper is due at noon on 12 May 2017.

COMP6032 Week 08 Lab A

Students worked on the assignments.

LEGS8007 Class 08.1

Part 16

We watched some videos from the WIPO about how the Madrid System works.

We looked at the harmonisation and internationalisation of trade mark law, with a particular emphasis on Europe.

COMP6032 Class 08.1

We ended up taking about the assignment.

I gave students a walk through of what was required for the Photoshop assignment.

We spend a good bit of time talking about the other two components.

COMP6032 Class 07.2

We looked at instructional strategies for different kinds of context. We will continue with this in he next class.

LEGS8007 Clases 07.2 & 07.3

Part 14

We began out look at Trade Marks.  We looked at the evolution of trade marks from makers' marks that functioned as a liability to the assets that were valuable.

We looked at passing off.


Part 15

UK Trade Mark No. 1

We looked at the development of a trade mark register in the UK and in particular how it was a prerequisite for reciprocal protection of marks abroad. This led to the Paris Convention.

COMP8035 Class 07.1

After a lot of work we eventually figured out how student can read their peer reviews. The Turnitin UX people should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.

I asked students to revisit the structure of their papers and to write the first sentence of each section. Give a lot of thought to those sentences.

LEGS8007 Week 07 Tutorial

Nobody turned up

COMP6032 Lab 07A

I showed students who to record a narration in PowerPoint.  However I couldn't get it to play back correctly on the machine I was using.

I asked student to give it a try today or to try at home.

Since they have an exam today for another module they were more interested in studying for that. That's fine too.

LEGS8007 Copyright Extra

It's time to move on from Copyright.

There are three areas we didn't get to address in class

• Creative Commons
• Orphan Works and
• Proposals for Reform

LEGS8007 Class 07.1

Part 13

We looked "communication to the public" and the law surrounding hyperlinks to content.

I gave out printed copies of McCambridge Limited v Joseph Brennan Bakeries [2012] IESC 46 in anticipation of us moving on to trade marks in the next class

COMP6032 Class 07.1

We looked at different strategies for content sequencing.

I gave students a like of content from their first year architecture and hardware modules and asked them to sequence them.

COMP6032 Lab 06 B

Students worked on the Photoshop training exercise

COMP6032 Class 06.2

We reviewed the lessons of the procedural analysis exercise in the last class.

We discussed interviews with SMEs, but for the bulk of the class addressed writing learning objectives.  In particular we addressed the three domains: cognitive, psychomotor, and affective.

LEGS8007 Classes 06.2 & 06.3

Part 11

I gave out a copies of Kelly v Morris reproduced from The Law Times and a press release from the ECJ on SABAM v Netlog.  I was keen for students to see an example of a law report, and in particular to see the kind of language lawyers sometimes have to deal with.  The contrast with the ECJ press release is startling.

We discussed at the challenges new technologies have posed for copyright enforcement and the approaches that rights holder have taken in recent years.  In particular we looked at Digital Rights Management (DRM) schemes.




Part 12

We explored the roles of services provides (such as YouTube) and ISPs (such as Eircom and UPC) is assisting rights holders in their efforts to discourage copyright infringement, and the extent to which they can be compelled to provide assistance.


Exam Questions:

Assess the effectiveness of technological Digital Rights Management (DRM) schemes in balancing the rights of copyright holders and consumers.

How can online services providers avoid liability for copyright infringements by their customers. 

That concludes our look at copyright.

In the next class I hope to talk about the assessment regime for the module.

Next up we will look a the copyright implications of hyperlinks

COMP8035 Class 06.1

I asked students to

Log into turnitin and read the other papers is had assigned and answer the questions asked.

And on their blogs:

Write a brief note on the peer review process. Do you think it's useful?

Rate the quality of your opening relative to those you read (without going into the details of the others)

Provide a brief summary of a topic other than your own

Week 08 will be the last week of the blog.