Syllabus (Number of Lectures & Faculty)

 Preamble

• The Relevance, Business Impact, Protection of Intellectual Property

• Types of Intellectual Property Rights: Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights,

• Industrial Designs, Geographical Indications

• International Conventions: Brief Background

Patents

• General Introduction

• What is a Patent?

• Product / Design Patents & Terminology

• Patent Claims

• Patent Life and Geographical Boundaries

• Utilization of Intellectual Patents

• Patent Search, Patent Databases & Library

• Patent Acts & Rules

• Legal Decision making process

• Ownership of Patents

How to Obtain IPR Rights

• Elements of patentability

• Patentable subject matter

• Utility, novelty and non-obviousness

• Illustrations: Using business method patents in commerce

• Worldwide Patent Protection (TRIPS, Paris Convention, PCT and Patent Harmonisation including sui-genesis system)

• Indian & US Patent Acts & Latest Amendments

Building Patent Databases & Library Generation

• Patent search through Internet

• Patent search through Library / Records

• Organization of Patent Library

• Patent Databases

Preparation of Patents Documents

• Lab Notebooks/Log Books/Record Books

• Methods of Invention Disclosures

• Prior Art Search & Public Domain Information

• Patent Application Contents

• Patent Reading & Writing Methods

Process for Examination of Patent

• Filing Process

• Strategic Patent Applications

• Process for Examination & Prosecution

• Reissue & Reexamination

• Patent Marking­

• 3rd Party Licensing

Software Patents

• Software Patenting in Indian & International Jurisdiction

Business Method Patents

Design Patents

• Product Designs & drawings

• Shapes

• International Standards

• Instruments

Patent Infringement

• Literal Infringement

• Doctrine of Equivalence

• Contributory Infringement

• Defenses to infringement including experimental use, inequitable conduct, patent misuse

• Legal Aspects (Act, Rules, Procedures)

• IPR as Protection Strategy

Recent Developments in Patent System           

·        Patentability in Biotechnological Inventions

Patent Valuations & Business Concerns

Trademarks

• Meaning of Trademarks

• Different kinds of marks (brand names, logos, signatures, symbols)

• Use of a Mark

• Registration of Trademarks-Procedure

• Opposition to Registration-Procedure

• What Marks are Registrable / Not Registrable

• Concurrent Registration

• Similarity of Marks

• Assignment / Transmission / Licensing of Trademarks

• Infringement of Trademarks

• Passing off Action

• Offences and Penalties

• International Conventions-TRIPS Agreement

• Domain Names / Trademarks

• WIPO Internet Domain Name Process

Copyrights

• Nature of Copyright

• Works in which Copyrights subsist

• Author & ownership of Copyright

• Rights Conferred by Copyright

• Assignment, Transmission, Licensing of Copyrights

• Infringement of Copyrights

• Remedies & Actions for Infringement of Copyrights

• Copyright Societies, Office, Board, Registration of Copyrights & Appeals

• International Conventions

• Copyright pertaining to Software/Internet

• Database

• Copyright Protection/Database Protection in Europe

• Legal Position in USA/Indian Law/WIPO Copyright Treaty

Industrial Designs

• What  is a Registrable Design

•  What is not a Design

• Novelty & Originality

• Registration of Designs

• Assignment, Transmission, Licenses

• Infringement

• Remedies

• TRIPS Agreement  

Geographical Indications

• Nature of Geographical Indications

• Conditions & Procedure for Registration

• Offences, Penalities  

Key Business Concerns in Commercializing Intellectual Property Rights

• Competition and Confidentiality issues, Antitrust Laws

• Employee Confidentiality

• Assignment of Intellectual Property Rights

• Technology Transfer Agreements

• Intellectual Property Issues in the Sale of Business

• Care & Maintainance of Confidential  Information

• Legal Auditing of Intellectual Property

• Due Diligence of Intellectual Property Rights in a Corporate Transaction  

Future Developments of Intellectual Property Rights

• Database

• Indian Traditional Medicine & IP Protection

• Folklore

• Patenting of Life Forms

• Patenting of Life Forms

• International Traditional Medicines & Health Foods  

Honorary Faculty Members

Dr. M. D. Nair
IPR Consultant

Dr. P. M. Kelkar  
Regional Quality and Technical Services Manager  
Johnson & Jonson Medical Asia Pacific Ltd.

Dr. Siddhan Subramanian  
Vice-President, Life Sciences and Electronic Chemicals  
Cleriant Colour Chem Ltd.

Dr. D. D. Kale  
Professor Polymer Technology, UICT, Mumbai  

Dr. A. P. Patwardhan  
Associate Professor

S. J. Mehata 
School of Management, IIT, Mumbai

Shri S.R. Rawell  
Partner, Rawell & Kudrolli Advocates.

Shri A. G. Paranjape  
Director, Lab India Instruments Pvt. Ltd.

Dr. V. B. Malkar  
General Manager, Corporate QA, Wockhardt Ltd.

Shri S. R. Aroon  
Senior Vice-Presedent
General Instruments Consortium, Mumbai

Shri V. B. Khare  
Dy. General Manager, Reliance Technology Centre  
Relience industries, Murnbai

Shri S. J. Apte  
Vice President, Operations, Nicholas Piramallndia Ltd.

Dr.V. V.Bedekar  
Chairman, Vidya Prasarak Mandal, Thane