Language
  • English
Format
  • Full time
  • Part time
Start date
  • September
Location
  • Maastricht
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Advanced Master Intellectual Property Law and Knowledge Management (MSc)

Science or tech background? This MSc trains you to become a patent and IP specialist and helps you qualify as a European patent attorney. Gain the legal and professional skills to protect innovation and bridge the gap between science and law.

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Your future

The Intellectual Property Law and Knowledge Management advanced master’s programme will train you to work as a legal practitioner or in management in knowledge-intensive industries and at research institutes. Around 90% of our alumni find a job within one year of graduation.

Our alumni have found jobs at a wide variety of organisations, including the following:

  • BNP Paribas
  • Austria Wirtschaftsservice
  • European Patent Office
  • European Intellectual Property Office
  • Ministry of Trade and Industry
  • World Intellectual Property Organisation
  • Assap tax and legal services
  • Philips IP and Standards
  • AkzoNobel

MSc degree

As an MSc graduate, you will have the academic, legal and patent drafting skills to successfully compete for positions and work in an international environment at:

  • national and European patent offices or industrial property bureaus
  • research institutes and technology transfer offices
  • national and international NGOs (e.g. Free Software Foundation Europe, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development)
  • industry associations, national/transnational innovative corporations and knowledge intensive industries (high-tech, ICT, nano-tech, biotech, life sciences, chemistry)

Career prospects

You might find a position as:

  • swap & derivative negotiator
  • patent examiner or attorney
  • legal expert on EuKTS
  • consultant
  • senior business development officer
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