This work is a brief commentary on the law relating to Intellectual Property Rights. Intellectual property comprises all the products of the human intellect, namely books, inventions, paintings, music, designs, and models.
The authors, in this work, seek to provide elementary knowledge of intellectual property rights and their protection. This book encompasses Patents, Trade Mark and Service Mark, Geographical Indications, Industrial Designs, Copyright and related rights, Protection of new Plant Varieties etc. Salient features of the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism, the vision of a Global IPR Order, means of tackling software piracy and IPR Enforcement, WIPO, and the TRIPS agreement, have also been studied.
Who needs to read this book Intellectual Property Rights- A Primer is packed with indispensable information for:
- The General Public
- Law Schools that teach intellectual property rights
- Associates dealing with IPR
- Lawyers dealing with IPR issues
- Associations involved in IPR issues
Review
Professor R. Anita Rao and Professor Bhanoji Rao have written an excellent primer on Intellectual Property Rights and it would be very useful to general Indian readers. We in India require concise books on IPR specially highlighting our problems. This book is a step in that direction. I hope that in the years to come, more books of this kind will come out. I sincerely congratulate the authors for this well written book.
Extract from the foreword by
Prof (Dr) A. Jaygovind
Vice Chancellor, NLSIU