10B1WBT832

Intellectual Property Rights and Bioethics

Credits 3

Lectures 3

Objective:To provide an insight to the students on different aspects of protection of inventions and research developments and its procedures for filling their protection. It provide scopes of protection of intellectual properties and its commercialization . Course Assessment:Mid Term Test 30

End Term Test45

Teacher Assessment (Based on Assignments, quizzes etc.) Attendence10+105

Total100

Course Outcomes:

By the end of the course students should be well aware of intellectual property rights and their mechanism of protection under different classifications. They will learn the strategies for effective IP management and their commercialization. . Course contentTopics Lecture hrs.

Introduction of Intellectual properties and rights 2

Different types of IPR( Patents, coyrights, Trademark, Tradesecret, ICL,GI,TK and PBR) 8

Rationale of different IPR ,their mechanism of protection and provisions in Law4

International IP treaties (Madrid Agreement, Trademark law treaty, Patent Law treaty etc.)2

WIPO, EPC, WTO, and TRIPS2

International agreements relevant to biotechnology-associated IP2

MID SEMESTER EXAM

Drafting Patent Application and Documentation 3

Revocation of Patent, Litigation and Infringement 3

Licensing and IP Management3

Commercialization of biotechnology Patents, Plant Breeders rights3

Traditional knowledge vis--vis owner rights2

Bioethics and biosafety; principles,guidelines4

Different bioethical and biosafety issues and law enforcement4

FINAL EXAMINATION

Assignemnts on topics:Each student should submit assignment in the form of soft copy on any of the topic in the last week of March1. IPR developing knowledge economy1. Case studies on different types of Intellectual Property rights (TK, GI, Patent ,Coyright etc.) and litigations involved in it.1. Bioethics and biosafety; Relevance and Essentiality: Comments1. IP management and commercialization: Scopes in research institutes1. Status of IPR in different countries1. Any business idea where any form of IP can be used for value addition.Quizes:

There will be three quiz tests conducted each of 10 marks which contain MCQ, fill in the blanks and one word answer.1. In the last week of January2. In the Last week of FEB3 In the last week of April

Books: 1.Intellectual Property Rights & Copyright By Bouchoux

2. IPR- A primer by R. Anita Rao and Bhanoji Rao3.Bioethics and Biosafety by M K Sateesh