Syllabus
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Course Code: MMB-401A Course Name: Intellectual Property Rights& Entrepreneurship |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Introduction to Intellectual Property: importance of IPR – patentable and non patentables. Trade secrets and know-how agreements. Utility models: Differences between a utility model and a patent. Types of inventions protected by a patent. Need for a patent. Grant of Patent and Patenting Authorities: Claims. Searching a patent, Drafting of a patent, Filing of a patent, Types of patent applications: Ordinary, PCT, Conventional, Divisional and Patent of Addition; An introduction to Patent Filing Procedures; |
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| 2 | Copyrights: Definition, need, coverage and duration. Related rights. Distinction between related rights and copyright. Rights covered by copyright. Trademarks: Definition. Rights of trademark, signs that can be used as trademarks, types of trademark. Protection and registration a trademark. Duration of protection. Well-known trademarks. Geographical indications: Definition. Need for Protection. Examples. Industrial design: Overview, kind, duration and need for protection provided by industrial designs. New Plant Varieties: Requirements, Rights of breeder, Extent and Duration, Examples. Biotechnology Research and Intellectual Property Rights Management, |
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| 3 | Agreements and Treaties: GATT, TRIPS Agreements; Role of Madrid Agreement; Hague Agreement; WIPO Treaties; Budapest Treaty on international recognition of the deposit of microorganisms; UPOV & Brene conventions. Patenting life – legal protection of biotechnological inventions – World Intellectual Property Rights Organization (WIPO). Patent Co-operation Treaty (PCT). Indian Patent Act 1970 & recent amendments. |
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| 4 | Patent licensing and agreement: Patent infringement- meaning, scope, litigation, case studies, Rights and Duties of patent owner. Commercializing Biotechnology Invention, Case studies of Biotechnology. Entrepreneurship: Selection of a product, line design and development processes, economics on material and energy requirement, stock the product and release the same for making etc. The basic regulations of excise: Demand for a given product, feasibility of its production under given constraints of raw material, energy input, financial situations export potential etc. |
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