The document outlines the significance and legal frameworks surrounding intellectual property (IP) rights, emphasizing their role in protecting innovation and creativity. It details the educational objectives, syllabus units covering various aspects of IP law including patents, trademarks, and copyrights, as well as historical evolution and international conventions. The content aims to enhance understanding of IP rights and their application in practice, alongside problems and solutions relevant to IP issues in India.

1. INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY LAW

3. PROPERTY

4. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
KNOWLEDGE IS TOOL FOR DEVELOPMENT
KNOWLEDGE IS MONEY
IT HAS TO BE PROTECTED

6. WHAT IS IP?

7. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

9. ONE PRODUCT, MANY IP!!!

10. WHY LEARN IP LAW

11. IMPORTANCE OF IPR
Intellectual Property Rights plays a significant
role in protecting your creativity and innovation
It is important for enhancing your business
IP is wealth which can be stolen easily, so needs
to be protected!!
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G79yiNANWZU&t=7s

12. COURSE EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
 To understand the basic concepts of IPR.
 To acquire skills in applying the IPR Law in several practical ways.
 To acquaint the students with the registration of different kinds of IPR applicable across several
skill sectors.
 To analyze the recent amendments dealing with IPR Legislations
 Evaluate as against other the international legal framework related to IP protection and
articulate the problem areas for the deficiency.
 Propose a solution to the existing IP problems in India.

13. SYLLABUS
 Unit – 1 Introduction - Concept of Intellectual Property-and its characteristics and nature of
intellectual property right justifications for protection of IP and harmonization; International
Conventions of IPRs; Types of IPRs; WTO, TRIPs; Theories of IPR:- i. Natural Theory. (ii) Hegelian
Philosophy (Personality Theory) iii. Lockes' Theory Of Property (Labour Theory) Iv. Social Contract
Theory. Economic Theory, IP- relation with Competition law, Trade law and other multi-disciplinary
areas.
 Unit – 2 Patents - Indian Patents Act, 1970- Meaning Criteria for obtaining patents , Patent Search,
Procedure for registration; Specification; Term of patent, rights of Patentee; Transfer, Revocation and
Surrender of Patents; Infringement of Patents and Remedies for infringement; Basic concept of
Voluntary and Compulsory license, parallel import, process product patents, Govt. use of Patents for
Public purpose, Dispute resolution bodies national and International.
 Unit – 3 Trade Marks - Trade Marks Act, 1999 - Functions of Trademarks; Categories of Trademark:
Certification Mark, Collective Mark and Well known Mark and Non-conventional Marks, Service
marks, Classification of goods and Service; Registration of Trademarks; Doctrine of distinctiveness;
Absolute and relative grounds of refusal Doctrine of honest concurrent user Infringement of
Trademarks;, Remedies; Licensing in trademarks – Deceptive Similarity and passing off, Border
measures and Trademark protection Domain name registration, Domain Name Disputes & WIPO.
Geographical Indication; Difference between GI and Trade Marks, Concept of Authorized user,
Homonymous GI, Geographical Indication of Goods 141 (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999 -
Infringements and Remedies, Adjudication authorities in dispute resolution

14. SYLLABUS
 Unit – 4 Copyright - Copyright Act 1957 - Characteristics; works protected under-
copyright - Literary works; Dramatic, musical & amp; artistic works; Architecture,
cinematograph film & sound recording; Author and ownership of Copyright; Rights
conferred by Copyright; Term of Copyright; Infringement and Remedies for
Infringement; Performers' Right; Publication Copyright issues in digital era,
Software Piracy, Copy left.
 Unit – 5 Designs - Design Act, 2000 - Registerable designs; Procedure for
Registration; Piracy of a design; The Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout
Designs Act, 2000; The Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Act, 2001; National
Register of Plant Varieties. Trade secret, Meaning, Criteria of Protection, Traditional
Knowledge, e-Protection of Traditional Knowledge.

15. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
 500 BCE--when Sybaris, a Greek state, made it possible for citizens to obtain a one
year patent for “any new refinement in luxury.”
 1474-Venetian Patent Statute

16.  1623-- Statute of Monopolies
 Origin from letters patent
 14 years protection
 1710-Statute of Anne
 Provided a 14 year term of protection. It also gave option of seeking a 14 year renewal
term.
 Aimed largely at copyrights, this law granted authors rights in the recreation and
distribution of their work.
 Late 1800’s- Global Intellectual Property Development

17. GLOBAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
DEVELOPMENT
 1883- The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
 1886-The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
 1891- Madrid Agreement Concerning International Registration of Marks
 1893-United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property
(Precursor of WIPO)
 Paris Convention and Berne Convention merged
 1994-The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
(TRIPS)

18. 1883- THE PARIS CONVENTION FOR THE
PROTECTION OF INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY
 Industrial rights; Patents,Trademarks and design rights
 1883
 Last amendment: 1979
 177 members
 Basic principles:
 Principle of national treatment (nondiscrimination)
 Rule of priority
 Common rules

19. 1886-THE BERNE CONVENTION FOR THE
PROTECTION OF LITERARY AND ARTISTIC WORKS
 Intellectual rights; Literary and Artistic Works
 1886
 Last amendment: 1979
 179 members
 Basic principles:
 Principle of national treatment (nondiscrimination)
 Principle of automatic protection
 Principle of Independence of Protection

20. WIPO
United International Bureaux
for the Protection of
Intellectual Property – best
known by its French acronym,
BIRPI, 1893
WIPO, 1970

21. STRATEGIC GOALS OF WIPO
• Balanced Evolution of the International Normative Framework for IP
• Provision of Premier Global IP Services
• Facilitating the Use of IP for Development
• Coordination and Development of Global IP Infrastructure
• World Reference Source for IP Information and Analysis
• International Cooperation on Building Respect for IP
• Addressing IP in Relation to Global Policy Issues
• A Responsive Communications Interface between WIPO, its Member States and All
Stakeholders
• An Efficient Administrative and Financial Support Structure to Enable WIPO to Deliver its
Programs

22. 1994-THE AGREEMENT ON TRADE-RELATED ASPECTS OF
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (TRIPS)
 Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
 1994
 Background; negotiations in GATT
 WTO (164 members) established in 1993 and TRIPs entered into force in1995
 Minimum requirements to national legislation on IPR and enforcement of IPR
 scope is to bring up level of protection in developing countries

23. TRIPS
 PART I-GENERAL PROVISIONS AND BASIC PRINCIPLES
 PART II STANDARDS CONCERNING THE AVAILABILITY, SCOPE AND USE OF
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
1.Copyright and Related Rights (Art. 9-14)
2.Trademarks (Art. 15-21)
3. Geographical Indications (Art. 22-24)
4. Industrial Designs (Art. 25-26)
5. Patents (Art. 27-34)
6. Layout-Designs (Topographies) of Integrated Circuits (Art. 35-38)
7. Protection of Undisclosed Information (Art. 39)
8. Control of Anti-Competitive Practices in Contractual Licences (Art. 40)

24.  PART III-ENFORCEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
 PART IV- ACQUISITION AND MAINTENANCE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
RIGHTS AND RELATED INTER-PARTES PROCEDURES
 PART V -DISPUTE PREVENTION AND SETTLEMENT
 PART VI-TRANSITIONAL ARRANGEMENTS PART VII INSTITUTIONAL
ARRANGEMENTS; FINAL PROVISIONS

25. COPYRIGHT-INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS
 Berne Convention 1886
 Universal Copyright Convention, 1952
 Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and
Broadcasting Organizations, 1961
 TRIPS Agreement 1994
 WIPO Copyright Treaty 1996
 WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty 1996
 Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired
Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities, 2013

26. PATENTS-INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS
 Paris Convention 1883
 Patent Co-operation Treaty 1970
 Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of
Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure, 1977
 TRIPS

28. TRADEMARKS-INTERNATIONAL
CONVENTIONS
 Paris Convention 1883
 Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks (1891)
 Madrid Protocol 1989

29.  Nice Agreement concerning the International Classification of Goods and
Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks (1957)
 Vienna Agreement Establishing an International Classification of the Figurative
Elements of Marks (1973)
 TRIPS

30. GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS
 The Paris Convention for the protection of industrial property of 1883
 The Madrid Agreement for the Repression of False or Deceptive Indications of
Source on Goods of 1891
 Lisbon Agreement for the protection of Appellations of origin and their
International Registration of 1958
 TRIPS

31. INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS
 Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, 1883
 The Hague Agreement Concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs,
1925
 Locarno Agreement Establishing an International Classification for Industrial
Designs, 1968
 TRIPS

32. PLANT VARIETIES
 International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV 61).

33. SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
LAYOUT DESIGN
 Washington Treaty on Intellectual Property in Respect of Integrated Circuits, 1989
 Not in force but partially integrated in Article 35 of TRIPS

34. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
 TRIPS
 Paris Convention