世界智慧財產權組織（WIPO）公布之「2014年全球創新指數」中，亞洲國家唯有新加坡和香港擠進排名前10名。臺灣設計教育迄今50年的發展歷程，高等教育中設計教育是國家培養設計專業人才的關鍵，如何強化設計專業人才的法學素養，使設計創造力的應用兼顧智慧權利的保障，是當今設計教育應思考的課題。 本研究以設計領域相關之智慧財產權法律規定及訴訟案例為出發點，基於高等教育設計學系法學知識養成的需求，以文獻分析法探討法學課程資料的現況與智慧財產權課程大綱的規劃。研究目的是為了瞭解設計各相關系所之法學課程執行現況，分析其智慧財產權課程規劃的異同，以作為未來設計系法學教育發展的參考。研究結果建議設計系法學教育應普及智慧財產權課程，加強著作權法基礎教學，增聘法律領域學者為專任師資，建構適合設計領域的智財權授課內容。

When World Intellectual Property Rights Organization (WIPO) announced the "2014 Global Innovation Index", Singapore and Hong Kong were the only two Asian countries ranked on the top 10. Design education in Taiwan has been developing for 50 years, higher design education plays the key contribution on fostering design professionals in the island. How to strengthen the designer’s legal literacy and how to balance the application of the design creativity and protection of intellectual rights will be the important topics on design education. The study has made the relevant intellectual property laws and litigation cases as a starting point. Based on the need of law knowledge for higher design education, a document analysis is applied to the current situation of law course materials and syllabus planning of intellectual property rights to analyze the development of current design education. The objective is to understand the implementation status of the law curriculum in the design relevant departments, and to analyze the similarities and differences of their intellectual property rights curriculum planning. It offers as a guide for future development of legal education in the design school. The study concludes that design education should popularize the curriculum of intellectual property rights, enhance fundamental copyright law class, recruit professional legal scholars of specially appointed teacher and structure the adequate curriculum of intellectual property rights for design field.