Suggested Readings:
1. P. Rama Reddi and P. SrinivasaReddy :Land Reform Laws in A.P., Asia Law
House,Hyderabad.
2. P.S. Narayana: Manual of Revenue Laws in A.P., Gogia Law Agency,
Hyderabad.
3. Land Grabbing Laws in A.P., Asia Law House, Hyderabad.
4. G.B. Reddy: Land Laws in A.P., Gogia Law Agency, Hyderabad
5. 5.N.Maheshwara Swamy, Lectures on Land Laws,Asia LawHouse,Hyderabad
PAPER-V:
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW
Unit-I:
Intellectual Property-Meaning, Nature and Classification –Significance and need
of protection of Intellectual Property — Main forms of Intellectual Property :
Patents,Trademarks,Industrial designs, Geographical Indications of Goods,
Copyright and Neighbouring Rights-New forms of Intellectual Property: Plant
Varieties Protection and Biotechnology, GRTK, Layout Designs, Computer
Programmes, Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property.
Unit-II:
Evolution of International Protection of IPRs-Introduction to the leading
International instruments concerning Intellectual Property Rights –General
PrinciplesofProtection-TheParisConvention,1883- WC T 1996 -
TheBerneConvention,1886 –The Madrid Agreement,1891 and Protocol 1989 -
The Patent Co-operation Treaty,1970 – The World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO) Conventions- TRIPSAgreement,1994 and its impact.
Unit-III :
Copyright: Meaning, Nature, historical evolution and significance- The Copyright
Act, 1957 – Salient Features-Idea-Expression Dichotomy-Subject matter of
Copyright Protection- Neighboring rights - Ownership of Copyright –Rights of
Authors and owners -Assignment of copyright –Collective management of
copyright- infringement of copyright and Criteria –Exceptions to infringement–
Doctrine of Fair Use -Authorities under the Act — Remedies for infringement of
copyright.
Unit-IV:
Intellectual Property in Trademarks and the rationale of their protection - The
Trade Marks Act, 1999 — Definition of Trademarks — and Trade description -
Kinds of Trade Marks l conventional and non converntional – Trademarks and
Internet Domain Names – Registration of trademarks – Rights of trademark
owners- Passing off — Infringement of Trademark - Remedies-Concept of
Industrial designs- The Designs Act, 2000 — Definition and characteristics of
Design Registration of Design -rightsofdesignholders—Copyrightindesign—
Registration Remedies for infringement.
Unit-V:
Patents — Concept of Patent — Historical overview of the Patent Law in India -
The Patents Act, 1970 and its salient features — — Patentable Inventions —
KindsofPatents—ProcedureforobtainingpatentinIndiaandinothercountries
—Rights and obligations of a patentee —Limitations on patent rights: compulsory
licensing, acquisition by government and secrecy directions- Infringement of
patent rights and remedies available.
Suggested Readings:
1. P. Narayanan: Intellectual Patent Rights, Eastern Law House ,1995.
2. Roy Chowdhary, Law of Trademark, Copyrights, Patents and Designs,Kamal
LawHouse
3. G.B. Reddy, Intellectual Property Rights and theLaw Gogia LawAgency.
4. John Holyoak and Paul Torremans: Intellectual PropertyLaw.
5. B.L. Wadhera: Intellectual Property Law, Universal Publishers.
6. W.R. Cornish: Intellectual Property Law, Universal Publishers .
7.V.K.Ahuja, Law Relating to Intellectual Property Rights ,LexisNexis
8. Elizabeth Verkey, Intellectual Property Rights, Eastern Book Company
9.Elizabeth Verkey,Law of Patents ,Eastern Book Company
