Postgraduate Diploma inIntellectual Property Rights Law(PGDIPRL)

This paper introduces the student to legal thinking and reasoning, and to legal systems, with a particular focus on Indian law and the Indian legal system. Those students who are from a non-law background would find this course particularly helpful.

This course consists of the following modules:

Module I: Introduction
Module II: Patent Applications
Module III: Patentable Subject Matter
Module IV: Disclosure Requirements
Module V: Novelty
Module VI: Inventive Step
Module VII: Utility/Industrial Application
Module VIII:Oppositions and revocations
Module IX: Infringement, Exceptions to infringement, and Remedies for infringement
Module X: Patents and Public Health
Module XI: Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights
Module XII: Trade Secrets

This course consists of the following modules:

Module I:

• Introduction to intellectual property rights
• Types of intellectual property rights
• Overlapping intellectual property rights
• Theoretical justifications for intellectual property rights

Module II

• Introduction to copyright
• Historical origins of copyright
• International copyright framework

Module III

• Originality
• Idea-Expression dichotomy
• Fixation

Module IV

• Subject matter of copyright

Module V

• Authorship
• Ownership
• Role of Copyright Societies

Module VI

• Economic Rights
• Non-economic Rights
• Infringement of rights
• Secondary Liability

Module VII

• Limitations and exceptions
• Exceptions to infringement under Indian copyright law

1. Fair dealing exception under Indian copyright law – Sec. 52(1)(a)
2. Enumerated exceptions under Indian copyright law

• Compulsory Licensing under Indian copyright law
• Statutory Licensing under Indian copyright law

Module VIII

• Introduction to designs
• Subject matter of protection
• Design v. Copyright v. Trademarks
• Infringement of designs

Module IX

• Remedies
• Civil Remedies
• Criminal Remedies
• Administrative Remedies

This course consists of the following modules:

Module I: Principles of Trademark
Module II: Procedure for Obtaining Registration of Trademark
Module III: Rights of the Owner of Trademarks
Module IV: Infringement of Trademark and Action for Passing Off
Module V: Domain Name Protection
Module VI: Protection of Geographical Indication