INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS : PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES

UNIT- I

Intellectual Property Rights, technological advancements and the economy– Need for Intellectual
Property management in Business- Intellectual Property and Human rights: Convergences and
conflicts-Morality as a guidance factor in IP -relevance- Lessons from TRIPS- Developmental
perspective of IPR- Indian context - National IP policies

UNIT - II

Patents- History and evolution as Industrial property- Paris Convention –TRIPS- History-
Changes in Indian Patent Law- Mailbox- EMR- Patent filing Procedure –Steps- PCT filing-
Theory and Practice-Criteria- Pharmaceutical patents- compulsory licensing - government use of
inventions - experimental use – Bolar exception-test data protection- new developments

UNIT- III

Geographical Indications – criteria –registration – infringement - TM and GI overlap-Protection

of Plant Varieties- Farmers Rights as an intellectual property right-Conflicts among jurisdictions-
Protection of Traditional Knowledge under IP Regime- issues- CBD and TRIPs - Biodiversity
under Indian legal regime.

UNIT IV

Semiconductor devices- layout of Integrated Circuit Designs- scope of protection-remedies-

Industrial Designs- relevance- interlink with copyright-scope of protection- Trade secret-
common law development- protection in India-remedies

UNIT V

Interactions of IPR with other laws-Technology and IPR- interlink- Role of intellectual property
rights in electronic commerce- IP and IT- information privacy- Competition laws vis-a-vis
Intellectual property rights- Standard Essential Patents-trends- Responses from industry-
Technology Transfer and IP- Alternatives to IPR
Suggested Readings
 PAUL C. TORREMANS (ED.) INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND HUMAN
RIGHTS (Walter Kluwers, 2nd ed. 2008)
 CORNISH, LLEWELYN AND APLIN, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:
PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, TRADEMARKS & ALLIED RIGHTS(Sweet and
Maxwell , 2019)

 LAURENCE R. HELFER AND GRAEME W. AUSTIN, HUMAN RIGHTS AND

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: MAPPING THE GLOBAL INTERFACE
(Cambridge University Press 2011)
 N. R. SUBBARAM, DEMYSTIFYING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
(2009, LexisNexis).
 CORNISH AND LLEWELYN, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 6 (6th Ed. 2008).
 ELIZABETH VARKEY, LAW OF PATENTS (Eastern Book Company, 2nd ed.
2012)
 W. R. CORNISH, CASES AND MATERIALS ON INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY (Universal Law Publishing 2005)
 FEROZ ALI KHADER, THE LAW OF PATENTS-WITH A SPECIAL FOCUS ON
PHARMACEUTICALS IN INDIA (2011, LexisNexis)
 DELPHINE MARIE-VIVIEN, THE PROTECTION OF GEOGRAPHICAL
INDICATIONS IN INDIA (Sage 2015)
 PREM KUMAR AGARWAL, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS OF
FARMERS (Balaji Books 2011)
 T.R. SRINIVASA IYENGAR’S THE COPYRIGHT ACT, 1957 (6th ed.
Butterworths)
 BHARTI THAKAR, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN THE
EMERGING BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT (2006)
 DAVID BAINBRIDGE, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (5th ed. 2003)
 P.S. NARAYANA, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN INDIA (Gogia Law House,
2005)
 JAYASHREE WATAL, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN THE WTO
AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (OUP, 2009)
 JONATHAN CURCI, THE PROTECTION OF BIODIVERSITY AND
TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW OF
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information
Law, 2010)
 C M CORREA, TRIPS RELATED ASPECTS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
RIGHTS: A COMMENTARY ON THE TRIPS AGREEMENT, 291 (Oxford
University Press, 2007).
 PETER D. ROSENBERG, PATENT LAW BASICS 8 (10th ed. 2002)
 PHILIP W. GRUBB, PATENTS FOR CHEMICALS, PHARMACEUTICALS
AND BIOTECHNOLOGY: FUNDAMENTALS OF GLOBAL LAW, PRACTICE
AND STRATEGY, 252 (3rd ed. 1999).
 TIM W. DORNIS, TRADEMARK AND UNFAIR COMPETITION CONFLICTS
(CUP 2017)
 LASZLO MATYAS, et al. ECONOMICS WITHOUT BORDERS (CUP 2017)
 C. BRADFORD BIDDLE, JORGE L. CONTRERAS, BRIAN J. LOVE,
NORMAN V. SIEBRASSE (ED.) PATENT REMEDIES AND COMPLEX
PRODUCTS (CUP 2019)