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Intellectual property rights as a collective term includes the following independent IP rights which can be collectively used for protecting different aspects of an inventive work for multiple protection:-

1.Patents

2.Copyrights

3.Trademarks

4. Registered (industrial) design

5. Protection of IC layout design

6. Geographical indications Protection of undisclosed information

The advent of WTO and other international bodies that regulate transnational commerce, has put challenge before the developing countries like India in terms of policy making as well as enforcement. As a member of the WTO, India was bound to implement the TRIPS Agreement (Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights). It is in discharge of this obligation that trademark, patent and copyright laws were amended, conforming to the provisions of the TRIPS Agreement. Although it can be understood that the global scenario forced India to fight the pressures from within and outside the country but in the changed scenario efforts should be such that the future is bright. At the moment the greatest cause of concern for India is that many of the popular trademarks are not registered and most inventions or designs are not patented. Inadequate laws and their brittle and stagnant existence may expose the Indian market to the exploitation by transnational corporate interests in the era of globalisation. Inadequacy of legal coverage and the inefficient administration leads to the crisis and make the Indian inventor, breeder and farmer helpless to the onslaught of transnational commercial oppression as transnational big-business interests may commercially exploit traditional knowledge and bio-diversity in the absence of strong laws and their enforcement. Many well-known brand names owned for decades by large business houses in India, can come under threat from new multinational entrants. This complacency can be gradually replaced by spreading awareness of intellectual property rights so that people should come up and assert their rights.

Some international organizations
World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) : www.wipo.int/
World Trade Organisation (WTO): http://www.wto.org/
Multilateral agreements text of WTO
TRIPS Agreement
TRIMs Agreement

Intellectual Property Laws India

- DESIGNS ACT, 1911

- Copyright Act, 1957

- Copyright Rules, 1958

- Patents Act, 1970