IPR

Introduction about Intellectual Property Rights

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) denotes the specific legal rights of the inventors to hold and exercise Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, Industrial Designs, etc. IPR aims to exclude third parties from exploiting the protected subject matter for a certain perod of time (normally 20 years), without explicit authorisation from the right holders. IPRs owner can use or disclose their creations without fear of loss of control over their usage during the course of dissemination of their creation/invention. IPRs confers of exclusive rights in relation to the particular form in which ideas/information are expressed/manifested in the following manner.

i) New and useful scientific and technical advancements in the form of innovations, inventions, products and processes, computer hardware and software, materials, biological varieties, etc. which are patentable.

ii) Industrial and architectural designs, models, drawings, creative, artistic and literary works, teaching resource materials, generated records of research including thesis, adissertations, etc. which are copyrightable.

iii) Trademarks, service mark, logos, etc.