Module 8 : Science: From Public Resource to Intellectual Property

Lecture 40 : Intellectual Property Rights: An Overview

 

Questions

1.  What is Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)?

2.  What do you mean patent?

3.  What are the criteria for attaining patents?

4.  The Indian Patents Act 1970 was subject to processes only, not products. Comment.

5.  What do you understand by the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights?

6.  Discuss the controversies over the patents system?

7.  Discuss the process of innovation and patents.

8.  Elaborate the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore.

9.  Elucidate the debates on IPR in the context of the World Intellectual Property Organization.

10.  What are the implications of IPR on industrial property?