Toward the Legal Aspect on Developing Academics Intellectual Property Rights in University

Abstract

The existence of IPR development at universities is important because universities are recognized as a forum for intellectual works that are the object of TRIPS protection and IPR development at universities is fully supported by WIPO. In subsequent developments, HKI has become a source of capital for major universities in the world. This success is a motivation for other universities in the world to develop intellectual property rights to become university entrepreneurs based on intellectual products. However, the development of intellectual property rights at universities is not only concerned with the registration and repository of intellectual property rights. The complexity of IPR development in universities can be understood as a logical consequence of the complexity of the IPR protection regime that brings together international law and national law in the fields of law, economy and technology. The stages of IPR development must go through the identification and analysis stages of the needs of universities, stakeholders and the socio-economic readiness of each university to make IPRs a valuable and sustainable intangible asset. In addition to economics and technology, the field of law is one of the keywords in the development of intellectual property rights at universities, but ironically the legal aspect is biased and may be limited as if it is only related to procedures and the validity of IPR registration. The bias of legal aspects in IPR will certainly limit the understanding and development of IPR itself. For this reason, this research will re-analyze what are the key issues in the legal aspects in the development of academic intellectual property rights based on the legal regime that applies, especially at universities.