Global trade has crossed all barriers. Intellectual Property Law is now an indispensable part of economic laws throughout the whole world. The different branches of intellectual property lawPatents, Trademarks. Designs, Copyrights, Creativity, etc. confer legal exclusivity in the market place. A balance between protection of intellectual property rights over such knowledge and their quick dissemination and assimilation in the productive enterprise is essential for continued growth of the country's economy. International negotiations about intellectual property poliferate but legal protection is still at base a matter for the domestic laws of Nation States. Almost all the countries of the world have enacted laws as for safeguard of the intellectual property on the domestic front. As transnational business grows so the experts need to have acquaintance with IPR laws of all major countries and also the impact on their constitutional systems.

The objective of the book is to highlight on international and domestic trade laws in the light of globalisation and liberalisation. This book would prove useful to the general public, legal professionals and all students interested in the study of intellectual property rights.

Contents of this book include :

• The Challenges Ahead
  
  

• The Intellectual Property Rights Law

• Ancient Indian Perception to Intellectual Property Rights.
  
  

• Evolution and Development of Intellectual Property Rights
  
  

• Recent Development for Protection of Intellectual Property Rights
  
  

• Intellectual Property Rights in India
  
  

• Intellectual Property Right Law in WTO Regime
  
  

• Intellectual Property Rights in Life Forms
  
  

• WTO/TRIPs and Patent Rights in Indian Perspective.
  
  

• Indian Constitution, Tripped by the GATT, The TRIPs and the Indian Patent Law
  
  

• Patenting of Biotechnological Inventions
  
  

• International Patent Law and India's Sovereign Right
  
  

• Intellectual Property Rights in Outer Space and Patents
  
  

• An Overview of the Patent Law in India
  
  

• TRIPs, Constitution and Patents
  
  

• Indian Patents Law and Uruguay Round
  
  

• Intellectual Property Rights and Indian Legislations with Special Reference to Patent
  
  

• Environmental Protection in Relation to Patentability of Biotechnology
  
  

• The Golden Rule of Copying vs. Fair Use Doctrine
  
  

• Design Laws in Changing Society
  
  

• Legal Protection of Creativity under Copyrights Law
  
  

• The Law of Copyright Protection at International and National Level
  
  

• Copyright : A Long Anointed Concept in Libraries
  
  

• Intellectual Property Protection of Software-Copyright us. Patent
  
  

• Copyright Protection in Internet
  
  

• Constitutionality of the Limited Duration of Copyright
  
  

• Concept of Originality in Copyright Law
  
  

• The Emerging Challenges to the Indian Copyright Law
  
  

• Intellectual Property Right
  
  

• Protection of Performer's Rights
  
  

• Intellectual Property Rights
  
  

• Legal Protection of Creativity in the Digital Millennium
  
  

• Protection of Traditional Knowledge
  
  

• Infringement of Copyright in Films by Cable TV in India
  
  

• Index.