WITH EFFECT FROM THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2013 - 2014
LA 454
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
(ELECTIVE - II)
Instruction 4 Periods per week
Duration of University Examination 3 Hours
University Examination 75 Marks
Sessional 25 Marks
Unit-I
Introduction: Meaning of Intellectual property - Nature of I.P. Rights -Kinds of Intellectual property rights -International conventions of Intellectual property rights. Patent Treaty 197O, GATT 1970, GATT 1994, TRIPS & TRIMS International organization for protection of IPR-WTO,WIPO, UNESCO.
Unit-II
Patents: Meaning of Patents -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: Definition of designs -Registration of design -Rights and duties of Proprietor of design -Piracy of registered design.
Unit-IV
Trade Marks -Meaning of trade marks -Purpose of protecting trademarks, Registered Trademark -Procedure -passing off-Assignment and licensing of trade marks -Infringement of trademarks.
Unit-V
Copy Right -Nature, scope of copy right -subject matter of copyright -rights conferred by copyright -Publication- Broad-Casting, telecasting -Computer programme -Database write -Assignment -Transmission of copyright, Infringement of copy right.
Suggested Reading:
- 1.Cronish W.R1 Intellectual Property; Patents, copyright, Trad and Allied rights, Sweet & Maxwell, 1993,
- 2.P.Narayanan, Intellectual property law, Eastern Law Edn.,1997.
- 3.Robin Jacob and Daniel Alexander, A Guide Book to Intellectual property patents, Trade Marks, Copy rights and designs , Sweet, Maxwell 4th Edition. 1993.