EFFECT FROM THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2013 - 2014

LA 454

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

(Elective-III)

Instruction                                                               `                                                                                                                                                                                         4 Periods per week

Duration of University Examination                                                                                                                                                                                                                    3 Hours

University Examination                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      75Marks

Sessional                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          25 Marks

UNIT–I

Introduction: Meaning of Intellectual Property- Nature of I.P- Protection of I.P. Rights-kinds of Intellectual Property Rights –International Conventions of Intellectual Property Rights- patent Treaty 1970, GATT 1994, TRIPS & TRIMS – International Organization for Protection of IPR – WTO, WIPRO, UNESCO.

UNIT-II

Patents: Meaning of Patent- Commercial Significance – Obtaining of Patent

– patentable Subject – matter – rights and obligations of Patentee – specification – Registration of patents – Compulsory licensing and licenses of rights – Revocation.

UNIT-III

Industrial Designs : Definitions of Designs – Registration of Designs – Rights and Duties of Proprietor of Design – Piracy of Registered Designs.

UNIT-IV

Trade Marks : Meaning of trademark – purpose of protecting trademarks Registered trade mark – procedure – passing off – Assignment and licensing of trademarks – Infringement of trademarks.

UNIT-V

Nature, scope of copyright – Subject matter of copy right – Right conferred by copyrightPublication – Broad – casting, telecasting – computer programme – Database right – Assignment – Transmission of copyright – Infringement of copy right.

Suggested Reading:

1. 1)Cornish W.R, “Intellectual Property Patents”, Copyright, Trademarks and Allied Rights, Sweet & Maxwell 1993.

1. 2)P . Narayanan, “Intellectual Property Law”, Eastern law House 2nd Edn. 1997.