Intellectual Property Rights
IPR is increasingly become a widely discussed topic in India, as the innovation and productivity grow and encouraged among the innovative workforce. Every citizen in the country has rights to protect his invention, from forgery, unlawful reproduction and plagiarism.
IPR as an collective term encompasses the following components:
Patents
Copyrights
Trademarks
Registered ( industrial) design
Protection of IC layout design,
Geographical indications, e.g Tirupati Laddu, Kanchepuram Silk
Protection of undisclosed information
Companies and R&D houses who are hugely inventing with drugs, and novelties; artistic works – music, paintings, books, articles, industry secrets etc are protected and governed under copyright laws. Growing along is the IPR business in India. This latest BusinessWorld article supports the growing IPR business. Check the article here The Charge of the IPR Brigade. The legal hotshots who are dominating the booming intellectual property rights arena
The whole process starts with filing an application at patent office to becoming the copyrights holder. Government and companies has set up facilitation centers in different places to facilitate technology transfer, technology licensing and for commercial values.
For further reading:
1. http://www.pfc.org.in/workshop/workshop.pdf
2. http://newdelhi.usembassy.gov/ipr.html
3. http://www.patentoffice.nic.in/
4. http://www.iprlawindia.org/
5. http://www.wipo.int/portal/index.html.en
Filed under: Reference, India, Intellectual property rights, IPR
