Intellectual Property Rights Management

Unit I

Origin and Development of Intellectual Property · Concept, Meaning and Scope of Intellectual Property · The main forms of Intellectual Property: Copyright, Patent Designs and Trademark and · main items covered under these different branches of Intellectual Property · Judgments: · R.G. Anand V. M/S. Deluxe Films, AIR 1978 SC 1613 · Lallubhai Jariwala V. Chiman Lal Chunni Lal & Co., AIR 1986

• Concept and meaning of Intellectual Property
• Origin and development of Intellectual Property Rights
• Kinds of Intellectual Property

Unit II

Acquisition of Intellectual Property-Registration and its importance, Registration · mandatory or procedure followed and its benefits in case of Copyright, Design and Trade · Marks. · Judgments: · Indian Performing Right Society Ltd. V. Eastern Indian Picture · Association and others, AIR 1977 SC 1443 · Bishwant Prasad Radhey Shyam V. M/s Hindustan Metal Industries, AIR · 1982 SC 1444.

Unit III

Exercise of Ownership Rights/Infringements and Protection of Copyright · Rights recognised. · Term-Assignment, License · Patents-Rights-Term-Assignment-Revocation-License-Right of License · Designs-Design Copyright-Term-Restoration Assignment · Trade Marks-Right-Term-Restoration · Ownership- · Assignment Register use and Infringement · Judgments: · Manu Bhandari V. Kalavikas Pictures, AIR 1987 Delhi 13 · Ajay Industrial Corp. V. Shiro Kanao of Iboraki City, AIR 1986 Delhi 496

• Authorship and Ownership of Copyright
• Assignment and Licensing
• Surrender and Revocation
• Assignment and Licensing of Trademark

Unit IV

International Protection of Intellectual Property-International Conventions Brussels-Berne · Conventions-IIPO · Protocol 1991, Paris-Paris convention · GATT Negotiations with special reference to (WTO), Trade Related Intellectual Property · Madrid Agreement on Trade Marks 1989

• 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
• GATT and WTO