Intellectual Property Rights- A Primer

This work is a brief commentary on the law relating to Intellectual Property Rights. Intellectual property comprises all the products of the human intellect, namely books, inventions, paintings, music, designs, and models.

The authors, in this work, seek to provide elementary knowledge of intellectual property rights and their protection. This book encompasses Patents, Trade Mark and Service Mark, Geographical Indications, Industrial Designs, Copyright and related rights, Protection of new Plant Varieties etc. Salient features of the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism, the vision of a Global IPR Order, means of tackling software piracy and IPR Enforcement, WIPO, and the TRIPS agreement, have also been studied.

Who needs to read this book ?
Intellectual Property Rights- A Primer is packed with indispensable information for:

• The General Public
• Law Schools that teach intellectual property rights
• Associates dealing with IPR
• Lawyers dealing with IPR issues
• Associations involved in IPR issues

“Professor R. Anita Rao and Professor Bhanoji Rao have written an excellent primer on Intellectual Property Rights and it would be very useful to general Indian readers. … We in India require concise books on IPR specially highlighting our problems. This book is a step in that direction. I hope that in the years to come, more books of this kind will come out. I sincerely congratulate the authors for this well written book.”

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  • Inventions: History in Brief
  • Need to Protect Inventor Interests
  • IPR: Meaning and Significance
  • IPR: International Co-ordination
  • About the Book
  • Introduction
  • Intellectual Property and its Protection
  • Patents
  • Trade Mark and Service Mark
  • Geographical Indications
  • Industrial Designs
  • Layout Designs of Integrated Circuits
  • Copyright and related rights
  • Protection of New Plant Varieties
  • International Cooperation
  • Sources of Statistics
  • Global Patenting Trends
  • Trade Marks, Utility Models and Industrial Designs
  • Plant Varieties and Micro Organisms
  • Introduction
  • U.S.A.
  • Europe
  • Japan
  • India
  • Comparative Perspectives
  • Annexure- A. Glossary of important terms B. Indian IPR other than patents
  • The Turmeric (Curcumaiongal Zingiberacea)
  • The Neem (Azadirachta Indica)
  • Basmati (Oryza Sativa)
  • Patenting of Wheat Grain
  • Patent protection for Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Chemical Products - Mail box provisions
  • Annexure- Salient Features of the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism
  • Rationale for IPR
  • IPR Enforcement
  • Tackling Software Piracy: Possible Policy Initiatives
  • A Vision for WIPO
  • Annexure- Main points of the TRIPS Agreement

• Introduction

• Global Initiatives for Intellectual Property Protection

• Global Patent and other IPR Statistics: Trends and Implications

• Framework for Patenting: Selected Country Scenarios

• Study of Selected Legal Cases

• Towards a Global IPR Order

• Bibliography