Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)

摘要

Recently the importance of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) has been tremendously increased i.e. research scholars, students, entrepreneurs, businessman, startups etc in their professional fields Intellectual property refers to creations of the mind i.e. inventions, literary and artistic works and symbols, names and images used in commerce. Intellectual property is divided into two categories. Intellectual property includes patents for inventions, trademarks, industrial designs and geographical indications and the other one copyright covers literary works such as novels, poems and plays, films, more artistic works i.e. drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures and archi-tectectural design, Rights related to copyright include those of performing artists in their performances, producers of phonograms in their recording and broadcasters in their radio and TV program.