Scintillating Intellectual Property Blogs

This is the 11th World Intellectual Property Day.This years theme is "Designing the future".On account of this day I wish the whole Intellectual Property Practitioners and the one who belong to intellectual property family  a very Happy World Intellectual Property Day :) As per the theme lets design the future that's suitable for the environment and which strikes a balance between the public interest and the private interest as well :)

We will be answering some of the “wh” questions in the forth coming international conventions.Wh questions are why,where,when,what,which,how.To begin with, Paris convention was one of the first and foremost international conventions that was convened for protecting industrial properties which is now known as intellectual property. Position Prior to Paris convention The position of law to protect industrial properties differed in each and every country before Paris convention came into existence.Mainly with respect to patents there were widely varying rules in countries. For eg.- in some countries technical disclosures of patent were held until the term of patent expired            - some countries published the patent as soon as it was filed, and             - in some countries it was published after granting patent to such inventions. So when one country published patent disclosures upon filing, the patent is thereby known to public which lacks nove

In the previous post we saw what is law and international law.Now we will get to know what is intellectual property and its international aspect.Intellectual property is an area where every business is rushing to protect , either it is an MNC or SME or R&D etc. Intellectual property is now prevailing almost in all kinds of things that we use in our day to day life for eg. be it a mobile,TV, noodles,apparel,pen,pencil and the list is endless.Earlier "intellectual property" was commonly known as industrial property. It was in the late 19th century that the term intellectual property replaced industrial property which was coined by Josef and Edmond Picard.It is called as intellectual property since such property is created by a human mind or intellect.Lets explore briefly as to what is property before getting to know what intellectual property is? Property means one which confers bundle of rights through ownership and possession and there is also exclusive right over such

I have been pursuing Intellectual Property Laws Course for the past 1 year but today's class was wonderful which every Lawyer should know about.It was a basic introduction of what law is. As we are going to explore the area International Intellectual Property Rights i.e in an international level it is necessary to know basics of what law is ,its purpose etc.So far in previous classes we dealt with municipal law i.e laws within the country.For eg. Indian Patent Act,1970 Indian copyright act,1957 etc.We will now go through definition of law and deal later with the international aspect of IPR. So,what is law? Law is set of rules or set of principles which is a common answer given by the students.It is advisable that whenever you go through any definition of law or definition in any area,the first thing is to find its source because definitions should always be authentic.Today we discussed two definitions which was given by Salmond and Austin who belong to Positive school of thoughts