DAMODARAM SANJIVAYYA NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY

IV YEAR / VII SEMESTER B.A.LL.B (Hons.) 2013-2018

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAWS

Ms. Nilima Panda1

OBJECTIVE
The first and foremost objective of the course is to introduce the student to the general
principles of Intellectual Property laws and then help them in understanding the nuances and
its application. In other words the chief object of the course is learning & understanding the
fundamental principles of Intellectual Property Law. The main objective of this course is to
equip students with knowledge of various forms of Intellectual Property Rights and to create
specific technical, legal and management skills related to protection, infringement and
commercialization of respective Intellectual Property Right.

At the end of the course students should be able to determine what type of IP protection is
given to a particular subject matter, the manner of obtaining IP protection, the rights to which
the IP holder will be entitled.

From a practical learning point of view, students of this course will get exposure to manner of
prosecuting applications before appropriate authorities, responding to the office actions and
determining the nature of enforcement of IPRs.

THE COURSE OUTLINE & HOURLY PLAN

MODULE DETAILS NO. OF

HOURS: 68
Module I General Overview of Intellectual Property 5
Module II Copyright and Related Rights in National and International 20
Regime
Module III Patents 20
Module IV Geographical Indications 3
Module V Trademarks 15
Module VI Protection of Designs 1
Module VII Protection of Integrated Circuit Layout Design 1
Module VIII Protection of Plant Varieties 1
Module IX Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions 1

Module X Confidential Information and Trade secrets 1

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Ms. Nilima Panda, Assistant Professor of Law, Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University,
Visakhapatnam, AP
Email ID: nilimapanda@nls.ac.in

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 DETAILED SYLLABUS

MODULE I

GENERAL OVERVIEW OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

1.1 Philosophical justification of IPR

a) Lockes Labor Theory
b) Personality Theory
c) Utilitarian Theory
d) Tragedy of Common
1.2 International Conventions
a) Paris Convention
b) Patent Cooperation treaty
c) TRIPS
d) WIPO
e) Berne Convention
f) UCC

MODULE II

COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL REGIME

2.1 Subject Matter of Copyright

2.2 Copyright in Characters
2.3 Idea Expression Dichotomy
2.4 Doctrine of Merger
2.5 Originality
2.6 Authorship- Ownership
2.7 Secondary Liability
2.8 Moral rights of the Author
2.9 Doctrine of Fair Use
2.10 Enforcement of Copyright
2.11 Limitations and Exceptions

LIST OF CASES

1. Agarwal Publishing House v. Board of High School & Intermediae Edu. (UP, AIR
957 All 9
2. Jagdish Prasad v. Parmeshwar Prasad; AIR 1966 Pat 33.
3. Burlington Home Shopping Pvt. Ltd. v. Rajnish Chibber
4. Nag Book House and Anr. v. State of West Bengal
5. George Hensher Ltd. Appellants v. Restawile Upholstery ( Lancs.) Ltd. (1974) 2
ALL E.R.420.166
6. Merlet and Another v. Mothercare Plc.,( 1986) R.P.C.115

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7. Norowizian v. Arks (2000) F.S.R.363
8. Campbell v. Acuff Rose Music , Inc ., 510 U.S.569.
9. Nichols v. Universal Pictures Corporation (1930, US)
10. Warner Bros Pictures Inc. v. Columbia Broadcasting System (1954, US)
11. Walt Disney Productions v. Air Pirates (1978, US)
12. Raja Pocket Books v. Radha Pocket Books (1997, India)
13. Baker v. Sheldon
14. R.G. Anand v. Deluxe Films
15. Donoghue v. Allied Newspapers Ltd (1937)
16. Najma Heptulla v. Orient Longman Ltd. And Ors (Air 1989 Delhi 63)
17. Anil Gupta v. Kunal Das Gupta &Ors. (Air 2002 Delhi 379)
18. Midway Manufacturing Co. v. Artic International, Inc
19. Herbert Rosenthal Jewelry Corp. v. Kalpakian
20. Eagle Services Corp v. H2o Industrial Services Inc.
21. University of London Press Ltd. v. University Tutorial Press, Ltd.
22. Feist Publications Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co.
23. CCH Canadian Ltd. v. Law Society of Upper Canada
24. Eastern Book Co. v. D.B. Modak
25. Walter v. Lane
26. Ladbroke (Football) Ltd. v. William Hill (Football) Ltd
27. Govindam v. Gopalkrishnan
28. VT Thomas v. Malyalam Manorama
29. Beloff v. Pressdram
30. University of London Press v. University Tutorial Press
31. BM Piros v. State of Kerala
32. Noah v. Shuba
33. Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid
34. Saregama India Ltd. v. Suresh Jindal
35. Bharati Dutta v. Dr. Saradindu
36. Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios
37. A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc
38. Aimster Copyright Litigation
39. MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grockster, Ltd.
40. Mannu Bhandari v. Kala Vikas Pictures Pvt. Ltd. and Anr., AIR 1987 Delhi 13
41. AmarNath Segal v. Union of India and Anr., 117 (2005) DLT 717
42. Kelly v. Aribba Soft Corp.
43. Perfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon.com
44. U-Haul Intern., Inc. v. WhenU.com, Inc.
45. Harper & Row v. Nation Enterprises 471 U.S. 539 (1985)
46. Syndicate Press of University of Cambridge & Anr. v. Kasturi Lal & Sons, 2006
(32) PTC 487 (Del.)
47. Academy of General Education, Manipal and Anr. v. B. Manini Mallya 2009 (39)
PTC 393 (SC)
48. Nichols v. Universal Pictures, 45 F.2d 119

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 49. Roth Greeting Cards v. United & Co., 429 F.2d 1106
50. Computer Associates v. Altai, 982 F.2d 693 (1992)
51. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and Others v. Mr. Santosh V.G., Delhi High
court
MODULE III

PATENT LAW

3.1 Novelty and Utility

3.2 Inventive Step/Non-Obviousness
3.3 Patentability of Living Organisms and Genetic Material
3.4 Patentability of Mathematical Formulae, Algorithms and Computer
Programs
3.5 Rights of the Patent Holders
3.6 Enforcement of the Rights of the Patent Holder
3.7 Limitations and Exceptions on the Rights of IP Holders
3.8 Filing Procedure
3.9 Compulsory Licensing

LIST OF CASES

1. Asahi Kasei Kogyo [1991 RPC 485 (H.L.)]

2. Merell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc. and another v. H.N. Norton & Co. Ltd. And
others [[1996] R.P.C. 76 HL]
3. Brenner v. Mason [ 38 US 519]
4. Eli Lilly & Co v. Human Genome Sciences Inc
5. Hotchkiss v. Greenwood
6. G Graham v. John Deere Co.
7. Panduit Corp. v. Dennison Manufacturing Co.
8. Railroad Dynamics, Inc. v. A. Stucki Co
9. Jones v. Hardy
10. US v. Adams
11. KSR International Co. v. Teleflex Inc.
12. Bombay Aggrawal Co., Akola v. Ram Diwan Chand
13. Canadian General Electric v. Fada Radio
14. Biswanath Prasad Radhey Shyam v. Hindustan Metal Industries
15. Garware Wall Ropes Ltd. v. Mr. Anant Kanoi & Ors.
16. Lallubhai Chakubhai v. Chimanlal and Co.
17. Lallubhai Chakkubhai v. Shamaldas Sankalchand Shah
18. F.H&B Corpn. v. Unichem Laboratories
19. Diamond v. Chakrabarty
20. Gottschalk v. Benson, 409 U.S. 63 (1972)
21. Parker v. Flook, 437 U.S. 584 (1978)
22. Diamond v. Diehr, 450 U.S. 175 (1981)
23. State Street Bank v. Signature Financial Group, 149 F.3d 1368

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 24. AT &T Corp. v. Excel Communications, 172 F.3d 1352
25. Bernand L. Bilski and Rand A. Warsaw v. David J. Kappos
26. Mayo collaborative services
27. Myriad Genetics
MODULE IV

GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS

4.1 International Protection

4.2 Indication of Source
4.3 Appellation of Origin
4.4 Geographical Indication
4.5 Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and
Protection) Act, 1999
4.6 Registration
4.7 Enforcement of GI
4.8 Case Laws

MODULE V

PROTECTION OF TRADEMARK

5.1 Spectrum of Distinctiveness

5.2 Well known, Collective and Certification Trademark
5.3 Assignment and Licensing of Trademarks
5.4 Domain Name
5.5 Filing Procedure
5.6 Rights of the Owners of the Trademarks
5.7 Enforcement of Trademarks
5.8 Limitations and Exceptions

LIST OF CASES

1. The Coca-Cola Co. of Canada v Pepsi-Cola Co. of Canada (RPC) 1942

2. Bata Ltd v Sim Ah Ba & Ors
3. Adidas America, Inc et al v. Payless Shoesource, Inc
4. LOreal S.A. v Bellure N.v. and others 2009 ECJ
5. Gucci Am., Inc. v. Guess, Inc.
6. Yale University v. Yale Academy, Inc.
7. N.R. Dongre & Ors. v. Whirlpool Corporation & Anr.
8. Daimler Benz Aktiegesellschaft & Anr. v. Hybo Hindustan
9. Kamal Trading Company v. Gillette UK Limited (1988)
10. Specsavers International Healthcare Ltd and others v. Asda Stores Ltd
11. Panavision International, L.P.v. Dennis Toeppen (1998)
12. Yahoo Inc. v. Akash Arora

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 13. Satyam Infoway v. Sify Net Solutions

MODULE VI
PROTECTION OF DESIGNS

6.1 Introduction to Designs:

6.2 Acquisition of Design Rights
6.3 Rights of Design Owners

6.4 Infringement of Design Rights

6.5 Defenses in Infringement of Designs

6.6 International Protection of Design Rights

MODULE VII

PROTECTION OF LAY OUT DESIGNS FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS

7.1 Justification for protection of integrated circuits

7.2 Problems of accommodating within the existing intellectual property
framework
7.3 Legislation for protecting integrated circuits in India

MODULE VIII

PROTECTION OF PLANT VARIETIES

8.1 Plant Varieties Protection-Objectives, Justification

8.2 International Position, Plant Varieties Protection in India
8.3 Recent Landmark Foreign and Indian cases

MODULE IX

PROTECTION FOR TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND TRADITIONAL CULTURAL

EXPRESSIONS
9.1 Rationale for Protecting Traditional Knowledge/TCE/PV;
9.2 International Legal Framework;
9.3 Position in India;
9.4 TKDL

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 MODULE X

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION AND TRADE SECRETS

1. Peabody v. Norfolk, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts 98 Mass. 452 (1868)

2. Tabor v. Hoffman, Court of Appeals of New York, Second Division 118 N.Y. 30, 23
N.E. 12 (1889)
3. Current Sources of Law E.I. duPont deNemours & Co. v. Christopher , U.S. Court of
Appeals, Fifth Circuit 431 F.2d 1012 (1970)
4. Metallurgical Ind. v. Fourtek, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit 790 F.2d 1195
(1986)
5. Hoechst Diafoil Co. v. Nan Ya Plastics Corp, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
174 F.3d 411 (1999)
6. Patents and Trade Secrets Kewanee Oil Co. v. Bicron Corp, U.S. Supreme Court 416
U.S. 470 (1974)
7. Group One, Ltd. v. Hallmark Cards, U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit 254 3d
1041 (2001)
8. Taborsky v. State. Florida District Court of Appeal, 2d District* 659 So.2d 1112
(1995)

COURSE EVALUATION

1. Project 10 Marks
2. Project Defense/viva 5 Marks
3. Attendance 05 Marks
4. Assignment 10 Marks
5. Mid- Semester 20 Marks
6. End-term Examination 50 Marks

LIST OF BOOKS

1. V.K. AHUJA, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN INDIA (2nd ed., LexisNexis 2015)
2. UNIVERSAL'S LEGAL MANUAL, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAWS CONTAINING ACTS,
RULES & REGULATIONS (Universal Law Pub Co.P.Ltd., Delhi) (Latest ed.)
3. SR MYNENI, LAW OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (7th ed., Asia Law House, Hyderabad
2014)
4. PAUL TORREMANS, HOLYOAK AND TORREMANS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW (6th
ed., Oxford University Press 2010)
5. LIONEL BENTLY AND BRAD SHERMAN, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW (3rd ed. Oxford
University Press, UK 2008)
6. NEIL WILKOF AND SHAMNAD BASHEER, OVERLAPPING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
RIGHTS (1st ed., Oxford University Press, UK 2012)
7. HELEN NORMAN, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW DIRECTIONS (2nd ed., Oxford
University Press, UK 2014)

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8. NK ACHARYA, TEXT BOOK ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (6th ed., Asia Law
House, Hyderabad, 2014)
9. NR SUBBARAM, DEMYSTIFYING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (1st ed.,
LexisNexis, Butterworks Wadhwa, Nagpur 2009)
10. R.K. NAGARAJAN, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW (2nd ed., Allahabad Law Agency
2003)
11. NOAM SHEMTOV AND IAN WALDEN, FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE : POLICY,
LAW AND PRACTICE (1st ed., Oxford University Press, UK 2013)
12. RAJSHREE CHANDRA, KNOWLEDGE AS PROPERTY: ISSUES IN THE MORAL GROUNDING
OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (Reprint edition, Oxford University Press, UK
2012)
13. CARLOS M. CORREA, INTELLECTUAL RIGHTS, THE WTO AND DEVELOPING
COUNTRIES: THE TRIPS AGREEMENT AND POLICY OPTIONS (Zed Books Ltd. 2002)
14. VEENA, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS: AN OVERVIEW (The ICFAI University
Press, Hyderabad 2007)
15. TIM PRESS, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW CONCENTRATE (Oxford University Press,
UK 2013)
16. RICHARD STIM, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: PATENTS, TRADEMARKS AND COPYRIGHTS
(2nd ed., Delmar Cengage Learning 2000)
17. DR. JP MISHRA, AN INTRODUCTION TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (2nd ed.,
Central Law Publication)
18. LIONEL BENTLY AND BRAD SHERMAN, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW OXFORD
UNIVERSITY PRESS, UK
19. T. RAMAPPA, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS LAW IN INDIA (1st ed., Asia law
House 2010)
20. ANDREW CHRISTIE & STEPHEM GARE, BLACKSTONES STATUTES, INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY (10th ed., Oxford Publication 2011)
21. RICHARD HACON AND JOCHEN PAGENBERG, CONCISE EUROPEAN PATENT LAW (2nd
ed., Kluwer Law International 2008)
22. STEVEN ANG,THE MORAL DIMENSIONS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (Edward
Elgae Publishing Ltd., Singapore 2014)
23. TALWAR SABANNA, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN WTO AND DEVELOPING
COUNTRIES (Serials Publications, July 2010)
24. CLIVE THORNE AND DR. SIMON J. BENNETT, A USER GUIDE TO DESIGN
LAW (Bloomsbury Publishing PLC)
25. MARSHA A ECHOLS, GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS FOR FOOD PRODUCTS (Kluwer
Law International 2007)
26. R IAN MCEWIN, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, COMPETITION LAW AND ECONOMICS IN
ASIA (Hart Publishing 2011)
27. AKSHAT PANDE ,Valuation of Intellectual Property Assets (Eastern Law House)
28. DARYL LIM, PATENT MISUSE AND ANTITRUST LAW: EMPIRICAL, DOCTRINAL AND
POLICY PERSPECTIVES (Edward Elgar Publishing Limited 2013)
29. JENNIFER DAVIS, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW (4th ed., Oxford University Press,
UK 2012)

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30. S.R. SHARMA, LAWS ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (Anmol Publications Pvt. Ltd.
2004)
31. WILLIAM CORNISH ET.AL., INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS,
TRADEMARKS AND ALLIED RIGHTS (7th Revised ed., Sweet & Maxwell 2010)
32. JAYASHREE WATAL, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN THE WTO AND
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (Oxford University Press, UK 2001)
33. SREENIVASULU N. S, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHT (2nd Revised ed., Regal
Publications 2011)
34. P.S. NARAYANA, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW IN INDIA (2nd ed., Gogia Law
Agency, Hyderabad 2003)
35. ADITI AGARWALA AND AKHIL PRASAD, COPYRIGHT LAW DESK BOOK (Universal
Law Publishing, 2009)
36. DARYL LIM, PATENT MISUSE AND ANTITRUST LAW: EMPIRICAL, DOCTRINAL AND
POLICY PERSPECTIVES (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. 2013)
37. P. NARAYANAN, PATENT LAW (4th ed., Eastern Law House 2007)
38. R. K. CHOPRA, INDIAN PATENT SYSTEM (1st ed., Himalaya Publishing House 2010)
39. CHRISTOPH ANTONS , TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE, TRADITIONAL CULTURAL
EXPRESSIONS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION
(Kluwer Law International 2009)
40. RUTH L. OKEDIJI AND MARGO A. BAGLEY, PATENT LAW IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE (1st
ed., Oxford University Press, UK 2014)
41. KEVIN M. GARNETT ET.AL., COPINGER AND SKONE JAMES ON COPYRIGHT (14th ed.,
Sweet & Maxwell, 1999)
42. C. B. RAJU, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (SERIALS PUBLICATIONS, 2006)
43. JAMES G. MCEWEN ET.AL., INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS
(LexisNexis 2014)

LIST OF ARTICLES

1. Theories of Intellectual Property by William Fisher,

http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/tfisher/iptheory.html
2. The Philosophy of Intellectual Property by Justin Hughes, 77 Geo. L.J. 287 (1988)
http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/tfisher/music/Hughes1988.html
3. Intellectual Property, Information, and the Common Good by Michael C. McFarland,
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/law/st_org/iptf/commentary/content/1999060503.html
4. Bryan Treglia, Patentable Subject Matter: Separating Abstract Ideas And Laws Of
Nature from Patentable Inventions 48(4) Jurimetrics 427-455 (2008)
5. Daniel F. Spulber, Should Business Method Inventions Be Patentable? 3(1) Journal of
Legal Analysis 265-340 (2011)
6. Mark D. Janis, Tuning the Obviousness Inquiry After KSR 7 Wash. J. L. Tech. & Arts
335 (2011-2012)
7. Glynn S. Lunney, Jr. &Christian T. Johnson,Not So Obvious After All: Patent Laws
Nonobviousness Requirement, Ksr, And The Fear Of Hindsight Bias47 Ga. L. Rev. 41
(2012)

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8. Elizabeth Adeney, Authorship and Fixation in Copyright Law: A Comparative
Comment35 Melb. U. L. Rev. 677 (2011)
9. YoavMazeh, Modifying Fixation: Why Fixed Works Need To Be Archived To Justify
The Fixation Requirement8 Loy. L. & Tech. Ann. 109 (2008-2009)
10. Justine Pila,Works Of Artistic Craftsmanship In The High Court Of Australia: The
Exception As Paradigm Copyright Work 36 Fed. L. Rev. 365 (2008)
11. L. Ray Patterson & Judge Stanley F. Birch, Jr., Copyright and Free Speech Rights 4 J.
Intell. Prop. L. 1 (1996-1997)
12. Elizabeth Adeney, Authorship and Fixation in Copyright Law: A Comparative
Comment35 Melb. U. L. Rev. 677 (2011)
13. Mohammad Amin Naser, Rethinking The Foundations OfTrademarks5 Buff. Intell.
Prop. L.J. 1 (2007)
14. Kenneth L. Port , On Nontraditional Trademarks38 N. Ky. L. Rev. 1 (2011)
15. Peter H. Behrend, Trademarks And Monopolies-Historical And Conceptual
Foundations 51 Trademark Rep. 853 1961
16. Christophe Geiger, Daniel Gervais, Norbert Olszak& Vincent Ruzek,Towards a
Flexible International Framework for the Protection of Geographical Indications 1(2)
The WIPO Journal 147-158 (2010)
17. Lisa P. Lukose, Rationale and Prospects of the Protection of Geographical
Indication: An Inquiry 12 JIPR 212-223 (2007)
18. David R. Hannah, Should I Keep a Secret? The Effects of Trade Secret Protection
Procedures on Employees' Obligations to Protect Trade Secrets 16(1) Organization
Science 71-84 (2005)
19. Orit FischmanAfori, Reconceptualizing Property In Designs25 Cardozo Arts & Ent.
L.J. 1105 (2007-2008)
20. Regan E. Keebaugh, Intellectual Property And TheProtection Of Industrial
Design:Are Sui Generis Protection MeasuresThe Answer To Vocal Opponents And
Areluctant Congress?13 J. Intell. Prop. L. 255 (2005-2006)
21. Mira T. SudrendraRajan, Moral Rights in Developing Countries: The Example of
India- Part II 8 JIPR 449-461 (2003)
22. AsankaPerera, The Trips Agreement And Protection Of Plant Varieties: A More
Intense Scrutiny18 Sri Lanka J. Int'l L. 223 (2006)
23. Pamela Andanda, Striking a Balance between Intellectual Property Protection of
Traditional Knowledge, Cultural Preservation and Access to Knowledge 17(6) JIPR
547-558 (2012)

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