Section 1 Overview of IPR

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**Chapter 1**

**1. Introduction**

• Patents

• Trademarks

• Industrial designs

• Plant varieties

use, or sell the invention.

Specification

ent categories of IPR. They are as follows:

• Copyrights and related rights

• Geographical indications

• Layout designs of integrated circuits

1.Inspires the research and invention

2.Motivates the inventor to disclose their invention

• Protection of undisclosed information (trade secrets) [1]

Patent is an exclusive right or a set of specific rights given to an inventor or a person or an organization, who claims to be the first inventor by the Patent and Trademark Office to exploit their invention for a limited period of time to make,

In general patents are issued to protect new product, apparatus, and process provided that the invention is not in the public domain also not disclosed anyplace in the world; it must be nonobvious and should have a practical application [2].

Patent system can motivate the technical process in different ways:

Living organisms including animal species, plants, and biological empowered with biotechnological inventions are categories of patents on bio-patents or life-forms [2].

Prologue One: Drafting of Patent

In nineteenth century, the foundation for Intellectual Property Protection (IPP) was created. In the 1883 Paris Convention, the Protection of Industrial Property was created. Intellectual property is the intangible product of the mind's work. Intellectual Property Right (IPR) is rights recognized by the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement and governed by the World Trade Organization (WTO), and they are given to persons for a certain period of time over the creations of their minds [1]. TRIPS agreement provides different norms and standards with respect to differ-

*Sakthivel Lakshmana Prabu and Suriyaprakash TNK*
