Undergraduate - UnitBTF3181 - Marketing law

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6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Business and Economics
Organisational Unit	Department of Business Law and Taxation
Offered	Caulfield Second semester 2013 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Mr Mark Bender

Synopsis

The legal framework which operates in relation to marketing decisions and practice. Topics discussed include unfair trading practices, intellectual property rights (patents, trade marks, copyright and designs), anti-competitive conduct and new marketing practices. The unit places the laws controlling unfair and anti-competitive practices within the wider economic context.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

identify and analyse the consumer protection laws and apply those laws to a range of marketing and advertising strategies
identify and analyse the laws protecting intellectual property and apply those laws to the development and marketing of new products and ideas
identify, analyse and apply the laws regulating a range of competition practices including pricing and distribution
critically evaluate a contemporary marketing law development and write a research paper on the topic.