IPR MBA

Class No 02 (07.05.09) Information Technology Act 2000

2009-05-07T21:52:00.000-07:00

In order to provide a legal framework for conducting online business the Indian Government passed a bill Information Technology Act 2000. The objective of the bill is to provide a regulatory framework so that Indian business can harness the Internet for enhancing business processes. Among the other thing the bill also meant to create a framework to conduct paperless contracts ( such as demat) and make Internet a more attractive platform to business conduction. The same frame work is used for e-commerce and e-governance initiatives. The act established controller for over seeing the implementation of the framework and also established appellate authorities to settle any disputes arising in new electronic environment. New category of entities such as digital signature certificates are issued for authenticating online transactions.

Class No 01:(05.05.2009) IPR Meaning, Objective and Scope

2009-05-05T16:50:00.000-07:00

Today I engaged a class for MBA II semester and covered the topic Intellectual property Rights, Meaning, Objective and scope which is included under Module 8 of the course titled Business Law. Here is the summary of the class proceedings.

The idea of property has dominated business world for long time and creation and protection of business properties has been a constant concern for business. In the past properties such as machinery, resources were protected by means of physical means and barriers.

Today intellectual properties are becoming more valuable both as revenue generators and wealth creators. Creating new intellectual properties and protecting them is a great concern. Intellectual property rights provide a legal mechanism to identity,own and protect a new class of industrial properties known as intellectual properties

Definition of Intellectual Property: Intellectual properties are defined as those properties created by the application of human intellect.

Examples: music, computer software, new drug formula

Categories of IP: Some of the well known forms of IP include patents, copy rights, trademarks etc.

Importance of IPR: We are living in knowledge era and much of the value is created by the application of ideas. For the survival of a business guarding those value creating properties is an essential.

List of additional resources for further studies

Question bank

IPR MBA : About this Blog

2009-05-04T19:32:00.000-07:00

This blog is created as part of my teaching a module titled Intellectual Property Rights for the II semsester MBA at SDM MBA instute during the academic year 2008-09.

This blog is a learning resource for all students and consist of course outline, class notes and question bank.

Course Outlines

2009-05-04T04:04:00.000-07:00

Business Law

Module 8

Intellecutal property rights: Meaning, objective and scope
Information Technology Act,
Right to information act,
Enviroment Protection Act- Meaning, Objectives and scope