INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS LAW-II

Objective
The central objective of the course is to provide students with a sound understanding of
fundamental concepts of patents, trade secrets, designs, plant variety protection, farmers' rights
and topography rights in the Indian Context. At the same time it will also enable students to
understand social, economic and political considerations and implications behind adopting,
interpreting and enforcing an Intellectual Property strategy and how far it suits the Indian
conditions.
Course Content

Unit-I: Law of Patents

Introduction
Patentability substantive requirements: new invention, inventive step and capable of
industrial application.
Procedural aspects: application, opposition and grant of patents
Licensing issues, Compulsory Licenses and Standard Essential Patents
Infringement and Remedies: doctrine of equivalent and its applicability in India,
Injunctions.
Patenting of life forms

Unit-II: Law of Designs

Industrial Designs: Concept, Nature and Meaning
Copyright, Patent and Designs: Overlap
Registration of Designs
Piracy of Registered Designs

Unit-III: Trade Secrets

Concept and Nature and Requirements
Protection of trade Secrets
Complement to Trade Secret Law?

Unit-IV: Law on Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmer's Right

Meaning and Concept
Benefit Sharing
International Regime
Unit-V: Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout Designs Protection Law
Meaning and Concept
Concept of Originality
Infringemnent and Defence.

Recommended Readings:
1. Padmanabhan, Ananth, Intellectual Property Rights:
Lexis Nexis, Butterworths, Wadhwa, 2012. Infringement and Remedies, 1" Ed.,
2. Rao and Guru, Manjula, Patent Law in India, Klwer Law
3. Narayanan, P., Patent Law, 4" Ed., Eastern Law International Pv, 2010.
House,
4. Khader, Feroz Ali, The Law Of Patents: With a Special 2006.
India, LexisNexis, 2007. Reference on Pharmnaceuticals in
5. Draft Manual of Patent Practice and Procedure, Indian Patent Office, New
6. Law Commission of India, Report No. 167 on The Patents Delhi.
Reports of the Law Commission of India, Volumne 14,Universal(Amendment) Bill, 1998,
Law Publishing (2009)
7. Merges, Menell and Lemley, Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age, 4" ed.,
Aspen Publishers, 2007.
8. Epstein, Micahel A., Epstein on Intellectual Property, 5" Ed., Wolters Kluwer, 2008 (Ch.
XIIProtecting Biotechnology)
9. Yu, Peter K. (Ed.), Intellectual Property and
Press, 2009. Information Wealth, Volume 1, Pentagon
10. Cornish, Llewelyn, Aplin, Intellectual Property: Patents,
Allied Rights, 7 Ed., Sweet & Maxwell, 2010. Copyright, Trade Marks and
11. Terrell on the Law ofPatents, Thomson Sweet &
12. Kongolo, T., Unsettled International Maxwell, 2006.
Intellectual Property Issues, Kluwer Law
International, 2008. (P. 1-28).
13. Toremans, Paul L. C. (ed.), Intellectual Property and
Law International, 2008. (Jerzy Koopman, Human Rights Human Rights, 2nd Ed., Kluwer
Biotechnological Knowledge, p. 533-582) Implications of Patenting
14. Basheer, "India 's Tryst with TRIPS: The Patent
of Law and Technology, Vol. 1, 2005. (Amendment) Act, 2005"", Indian Journal
15. Rebecca Eisenberg, Patents and the
Progress of Science: Exclusive Rights and
Experimental Use", 23 IPLR67 (1991)
16. Basheer and Kochupullai, *TRIPS, Patents and Parallel Imports: A Proposal for
Amendment" Indian Journal of Intellectual Property Law, Vol. 2, p. 63-86, 2009.
17. Raj S. Dave"A Mathematical Approach to
Claim Elements and the Doctrine of
Equivalents" (2003)16 Harv. J. L. Tech 508.
18. Sudip Chaudhuri, Trips and Changes in
Working Paper No. 535 (2005) IIM, Calcutta. Pharmaceutical
Patent Regime in India".
19. Halsbuery's LawS of India, Volume 20 (1 & 2) LexisNexis
20. Mashelkar Committee Report Butterworths (2006).
21. World Intellectual Property Rights and Remedies, Volume 2,
22. Prof. Dr. H. Vanhees (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Oceana.
2005. Laws, Volume 3, Kluwer,
23. Annual Surveyof Indian Law, ILI, New Delhi (on
patents and designs topics year-wise)
 HONORS GROUP
C. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
C2 AFFIRMATIVE ACTION LAW
Course Contents

UNIT-I: Understanding Affirmative Action

Meaning of Affirmative Action
Origin of Affirmative Action
Scope of Affirmative Action
Merit, Privilege and Affirmative Action
UNIT-II: Non Discrimination and Equal Opportunity in India
Affirmative Action and making of Indian Constitution
Implementation of Affirmative Action Provisions
The Quota Debate
Assessment of the Affirmative Action Programme
UNIT-III: Social Reservation in India
Identification of Beneficiaries
Relaxation in Qualification
Quantum of Reservation
Exclusion of Affluent Sections

REFERENCES:
1. B.R. Ambedkar, Annihilation of Caste, Navayana
2. Mahendra Pal Singh,Constitution of India, India: EBC.
3. Udai Raj Rai, Fundamental Rights and their Enforcement, PHI Learning Pvt Ltd
4. ATMason & DGStephenson, jr., American Constitutional Law, Routledge
5 MS Paulsen et al., The Constitution of the United States, Foundation Press
6. Ashwini Deshpande, Affirmative Action in India, Oxford University Press.
7. Zoya Hasan, Politics of Inclusion Castes, Minorities and Affirmative Action, Oxford
Unversity Press.
8. Sandel, Michael, The Tyranny of Merit, United Kingdom: Penguin.
9. Bhatia, Gautam, The Transformative Constitution: A Radical Biography in Nine Acts,
India:Harper Collins.
10. Subramanian, Ajantha, The Caste of Merit, U.S.A: Harvard University Press.
 HONORS COURSE VIIISem
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW GROUP
C3 CIVIL SOCIETY & PUBLIC GRIEVANCES
Course- Contents 2023-24

UNIT-1: Civil Society

Concept and Historical Development
Sociological Approaches
Civil Society in India : Emergence and Significance
CivilSociety and deprived sections

UNIT-II:Public Grievance Redressal Systems

" Right to Information Act, 2005 with Amendment Act of 2019
Role of Lokpal and Lokayuktas
Understanding the role and working of Central Vigilance Commission
Public Grievance Redressal Mechanism in India

UNIT-1I: Role of NGO' s in Redressal of Consumer Grievances

NGOS: A Background
NGOs and the Consumer Protection Act. 2019
NGOs efforts in Redressal of Grievances: Recent cases
Conflict between NGO's and Government: Future Prospects

REFERENCES:
1. Public Institutions in India: Performance and Design, Devesh Kapur and Pratap Bhanu Mehta
2. State and civil society: Explorations in Political Theory, Neera Chandhoke
3. Public Grievances and the Lokpal, Dr. R.K. Dhawan
4. Right to Infornaion: Lavw and Practice, Justice Rajesh Tandon
5. Nation. Civil Society and Social Movements: Essay in Political Sociology, T.K. Oommen
 LAW AND AGRICULTURE
Course Contents

UNIT-1: Introduction
National Agricultural Policy, 2000
Agriculture and Sustainable Development goals
Linkages of Agriculture, Food Security and Millennium Development Goals
Constitutional Provisions relating to agriculture
UNIT-11: Agricultural Marketing
Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act, 1937, Model Agricultural Produce and
Livestock Marketing (Promotion & Facilitation) Act, 2017
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development.
Laws and Policies related to seed Sector.
" E-National AgriculturalMarkets.
UNIT-III: Law and food security
National Food security Act, 2013
Right to food.
Law and Sugarcane.
UNIT -IV: Interface of Agriculture and IPR
Agriculture and IPR
Bio-Piracy
Protection on Plant Varieties and Farmers Right Act,2001
UNIT-V: Recent Developments in Agricultural Sector
Government Policies and Niti Aayog Reports on Doubling the farmer's Income
Pepsico v Potato Farmers Case.
Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act,
2020
Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020.
Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.
CASES & REFERENCES:
1. Dr. Ganesh Upadhayay v. Union of India, 2019 SCCOnLine Utt 1575
2. K.N. Farms Industries Ltd v. State of Bihar, 2009 (9) SCALE 361
3. State of U.P. v. Rabindra Singh, (2009) 6 SCC 691
4. Govt. of A.P. v. J. Sridevi, AIR 2002 SC 1801
5. State of U.P. v. Nand Kumar Aggarwal, (1997) 11 SCC 754
6. Smt. Atia Mohammadi Begum v. State of U.P., AIR 1993 SC 2465
7. Seedsman Association, Hyderabad v. Principal Secretary to Government, Andhra Pradesh, AIR
2004 SC 1690
8. Maheswari Fish Seed Farm v.T. N. Electricity Board, AIR 2004 SC 2341
9. Haryana SeedS Development Corporation Ltd. v. Sadhu and another AIR 2005 SC 2023
10. Shweta Mohan, Legal Regulation of Agricultural Procurement and Processing in India (Satyam
Law International)
11.Christoph Anton, Sui Generis Protection for Plant Varieties and Traditional Knowledge in
Biodiversity and Agriculture: The International Framework and National Approaches in the
Philippines and India, 6 IJLT (2010) 89
 HEALTH ANDMEDICINE LAW
(Optionalpaper)
VIIIth Semester

UNIT-I
1. Basics of Healthand Medicine Law
2. Health as a fundamental right, Constitutional and other legal provisions in
IPC,Cr.P.C.,CPC and Evidence Act
3. Different Acts, Codes, and Statutes related to health and medicine.
UNIT-II

1. Medical Negligence, Medical Malpractice, Professional Misconduct

2. Code of Medical Bthics and Law, Self-Regulation through Codes of Conduct
3. Consent, Confidentiality, Secrecy, Disclosure, patient right of self-determination and
Privacy
4. Law and procedure Relating to Medico-Legal Cases,
UNIT-III

1. Preventive steps for doctors/hospitals to avoid litigation.

2. Doctor & patient'scontractual relationship
3. Vicarious Liability of hospitals,
UNIT-IV

1. Safety and efficacy of medicine and medical devices

2. Access to Drugs, Access to Medicine, Essential and Alternative Medicine, Generic Drugs,
Manufacturing, Patents, Pharmaceuticals and Pricing
3. Clinical Testing and Trial, TRIPS, Vaccine and Vaccinisation,First- and Second-Line
Treatment
UNIT-V

1. Sexual and Reproductive Health

2. Sex Selection and Medical Termination of Pregnancy
3. Role of doctors as expertwitnesses in criminal and civil matters

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 C1 INDIAN FEDERALISM
Course Contents

UNIT-I: Federalism- Basic Concept

Traditional to Modern Approach
Salient Characteristics
Criticisms and Appreciations
UNIT-II: Indian Federalism
British Raj
India Council
Dyarchy System
1935-Federation
" Swaraj
Constituent Assembly
Present Status
Federal, Quasi-Federal or Unitary?
UNIT-III: Basics of Indian Federalism: The Directions
Legislative Relation: Liberal Federalism
Judiciary: Independent?
Constitutional Amendment: Rigidity
REFERENCES:
1. K. C. Wheare, Federal Government
2. A. V. Dicay, Introduction to the study of Law of the Constitution
3. H. M. Seervai, Constitutional Law of India
4. M. P. Jain, Indian Constitutional Law