This paper will enable students to:
Concept of Property and Intellectual Property; Rationale behind IP System; Category, Types and introduction of IPR; Indian IPR system
Invention or confidential information and its protection; The Patent Act and its amendments; subject matter of patent protection; Patentability criteria; inventions which are not patentable; Prior-art search, Patent Databases; patent specification, Procedure for Filing of Patent Application
Meaning of copyright; copyright law; Works in which Copyrights subsist; Rights conferred by Copyright; Infringement of Copyrights & remedies
Meaning of Industrial Design; Industrial Design law; Requirements for protection; Procedure for obtaining the Protection, tenure of the protection
Meaning of Traditional Knowledge, bio-diversity and bio-prospecting; bio-piracy, TKDL
www.wipo.int [2]
Recommended study resources: books, web-links etc
·Prateek Kasliwal, (2009), Intellectual Property Rights, College Book Centre, 1st edition.
·VK Ahuja, (2009), Intellectual Property Rights in India, Lexis Nexis Publication, 1st edition (Vol.1 and 2).
P Narayanan, (2001), Intellectual Property Law, Eastern Law House, 3rd edition.
Lionel Bently and Brad Sherman, (2004) Lionel Bently (Author), Intellectual property law, Oxford Publication.
Feroz Ali Khader, (2007), The Law of Patents-With a Special Focus on Pharmaceuticals in India, Lexis Nexis Publication, 1st edition.
N R Subbaram, (2007), Patent Law Practices and Procedures, Lexis Nexis Publication, 2nd edition.
Manual for Patent practices (www.ipindia.nic.in [3])
www.wipo.int [2]
Links:
[1] https://www.biotech.iisuniv.ac.in/courses/subjects/cosd-ipr-certificate
[2] http://www.wipo.int/
[3] http://www.ipindia.nic.in/
[4] https://www.biotech.iisuniv.ac.in/academic-year/2021-2022