Intellectual Property Rights Law-II (July 2020)

Unit I — Copyright Law

• Evolution of Copyright Law in India
• Nature and scope of Copyright
• Term of Copyright
• Works in which Copyright subsists: Literary Works, Dramatic Works, Musical Works
• Neighbouring Rights: Performers Rights, Rights of Broadcasting Organizations and Rights of the Producers of Phonograms
• Authorship and Ownership of Copyright
• Copyrights: Economic and Moral Rights
• Assignment and Licensing 4.9Fair Use Provisions
• Infringement of Copyrights and Remedies
• Copyright Societies
• Powers of the Copyright Board
• Copyright issues in Digital Environment

Unit II — Patent Law

Introduction to Patent Law

• Evolution of Patent law in India
• Patentable and Non-Patentable inventions
• Prerequisites — Novelty, Inventive Step and Industrial Application
• Pre-Grant and Post Grant Opposition
• Grant/Sealing of Patents and Term of Patents
• Rights of Patentee
• Surrender and Revocation
• Assignment and Licensing
• Fair use 2.12Infringement, Remedies and Defences
• Patent Agents

Unit III — Law of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights [S. 2, 15, 28-30, 39, 41]

Unit IV — Trade Secret Law

Unit V — Introduction to Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (TCE)

Unit VI — International Conventions on Intellectual Property

• Basic International Conventions and International Institutions relating to Intellectual Property
• Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, 1883
• The Berne Convention, 1886
• Trips Agreement, 1994
• WIPO