LAW-PAO-2
Language
  • English
Format
  • Full time
  • Part time
Start date
  • September
Location
  • Maastricht

Master

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.

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
CAREERPROSPECTS