Intellectual Property Rights and their Importance in Research Business and Industry

Contents: Preface. Foreword. 1. Enhancing competitiveness of SMEs through technology management: perspectives and prospects/Ram Khilari. 2. Intellectual property rights in education: an analysis of teachers awareness in Central India/Prashant Thote and D.P.S. Rathore. 3. Patents in biotechnology: development, controversies and social considerations/ITI Gontia-Mishra, Khushboo Bardiya Bhurat. 4. Protection of ideas by intellectual property rights in the field of biotechnology/Pragya Saxena and D.S. Rathore. 5. Plant variety protection through intellectual property right/Sudhir Kumar Pathak and Rajendra Singh Rathore. 6. Intellectual property rights and their importance in research business and Industry/Krishnapal Singh Chauhan. 7. Role of Intellectual property rights in human development/Rajendra Singh Rathore and Sudhir Kumar Pathak. 8. Intellectual property rights in India/Ramavtar Sharma and Neeraj Bhardwaj. 9. Intellectual property rights and their importance in research, business and industry/K.S. Sengar, Subhash Chand and Chaitanya Kumar Goyal. 10. Intellectual property rights and their importance in research, business and industry/Basuki Nath Dubey. Intellectual property management encompasses creation, protection and exploitation of Intellectual Property Rights. Patents play a critical role in research and development of intensive industries. Patent rights are known to provide significant benefits as they can be sold or licensed and form foundation for making, using and selling industry leading products, processes and services. In order to obtain valid patent rights, however, basic knowledge of certain critical issues is considered essential among stakeholders. This book deals with management and protection of intellectual property in present scenario. Book is focused on the scope of patents and related rights and gives reasons why patents and related rights need to be protected. This book would be useful for researchers, industrialists, knowledge economists, lawyers and wide range of communities interested in the Intellectual Property Rights.…