AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course is dedicated to the study of business law under the perspective of contemporary innovation in breakthrough technologies. The first part is dedicated to some key issues in the legal protection of innovation including the legal protection and exploitation of intellectual property: we will examine the regulation of some disruptive technologies in the field of biotechnology, bioinformatics and Big data. The second part examines the fundamentals of Corporate Law with particular attention to the development of an innovative enterprise: limited liability, rights and obligation of key participants in corporate governance, corporate operations such as capital increase, shares transfers, shareholders’ withdrawal from the company, corporate spin offs. We will examine Venture capital agreements and equity crowdfunding, the drafting solutions of corporate bylaws and shareholder agreements designed to balance the interests of different stakeholders of the innovation process.

TEACHING METHODS

Frontal lessons.

Any Student with documented Specific Learning Disorders (SLD), or with any special needs, should contact the Lecturer(s) and to the dedicated SLD Representative in the Department before class begins, in order to liaise and arrange the specific teaching methods so that the learning aims and outcomes may be met.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

- The entrepreneur and the enterprise: the concept of entrepreneur
- Classification and types of entrepreneur
- The statute of the business entrepreneur
- The forms of collective business: companies
- Partnerships and companies with share capital
- Types and discipline of partnerships
- The public limited company
- The rules governing other companies with share capital
- Winding-up and liquidation of companies
- Legal protection of inventions: patents
- Patent Eligibility Requirements
- Patent procedure
- The extension of patent protection
- Specificity of the patent for biotechnological inventions

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Civil Code (edition as desired, if updated)
• F. DI SABATO - Istituzioni di diritto commerciale. Ed. Giuffré.
• A. VANZETTI, V. DI CATALDO - Manuale di diritto industriale. Ed. Giuffré.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

ENRICO BONAVERA (President)

TULLIO FLORIO (President)

ENRICO EUGENIO DALLA ROSA

ENRICO ZERASCHI

LESSONS

LESSONS START

I semester, in October.

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Oral examination.