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“INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (IPRs)
“IPRs rights refer to the property that is a creation of the
mind: inventions, literary and artistic works, symbols, names,
images, and designs used in commerce. About a century ago, Paterson
J said {University of London vs. University of Tutorial Process
Ltd. 1916(2) Ch 601}, ‘What is worth copying, is prima facie worth
protecting’ This is the genesis of all intellectual property
rights.“These rights are of various kinds but IPRs. The computer
industry is affected by the following areas of IPRs:“Copyright
Undisclosed Information or Trade Secret Patents
Trademarks
Layout – designs (Topographies) of Integrated Circuits“The first three have an impact on computer software. The fourth
one (trademarks) and the fifth one (layout-designs) are more
relevant to the Internet and to computer hardware respectively
rather than to computer software. The three that have an impact on
the computer software are broadly:”