Syllabus
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Course Code: IN-BTY-603 Course Name: IPR, Bioethics and Biosafety |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Intellectual property rights: General Introduction to intellectual property rights and its different forms. Farmers Rights, Animal and Plant breeders rights. Development of patent system in India. WTO agreement and TRIPS Patent Cooperation treaty, Basic requirements of patentability, patentable subject matter, novelty and the Public Domain; Non obviousness Compulsory licensing, Patent infringements and revocation. Special issues in Biotechnology Patents: Disclosure Requirements, Collaborative research, competitive research, Patent Litigation: Recent Development in Patent System; Patentability of Biotechnology invention and its commercialization, Budapest treaty. 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.Innovation & Start-ups. |
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| 2 | Bioethics – Necessity of Bioethics, different paradigms of Bioethics – National & International. Ethical issues against the molecular technologies Biosafety: Introduction; Historical Background; Introduction to Biological Safety Cabinets; Primary Containment for Biohazards; Biosafety Levels; Biosafety Levels of Specific Microorganisms; Recommended Biosafety Levels for Infectious Agents and Infected Animals; Biosafety guidelines - Government of India; Definition of GMOs & LMOs; Roles of Institutional Biosafety Committee, RCGM, GEAC for GMO applications in food and agriculture; Environmental release of GMOs; Risk Analysis; Risk Assessment; Risk management and communication. Brief account of bioethics in Biotechnology |
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