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CAREERS IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW (IPR) - INDIA & INTERNATIONAL
Gurpreet Singh

Innovation is a key to the production as well as processing of knowledge. In the recent past, legal field has witnessed explosion in the field of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). Increasing growth of scientific knowledge demands new forms of Intellectual Property protection, complexity linked to Intellectual Property and traditional knowledge, community knowledge will pose a new challenge in the 21st Century.

New developments in the Intellectual Property Law such as trade marks law, copyright law, patents law, industrial designs law and information and communication technology law (cyber laws) has demanded the need for lawyers in the said specialized field of law. The protection of Intellectual Property law is innovation oriented profession. The IP lawyer works with wide range of clients from small business owners to top management of law corporations and from garage inventors to prize winning scientists. Intellectual Property lawyers also combine legal skills with other skills and technology, business and the arts. The Intellectual Property profession is best suited for the lawyers who can understand the nature of invention and the Intellectual Property and its effects on the client’s business will be the best professional to advise the clients in protecting and managing the clients Intellectual Property management.

Intellectual Property lawyers fit themselves into the roles as per the needs of the clients.

• They act as writers when they draft applications and intellectual property licensing agreements as well as various kinds of legal documents such as drafts, appeals, etc.
• They also act as counselors when they give opinion to the clients for protecting their intellectual property in the form of trade marks, copyrights, patents, industrial designs etc. and render advise pertaining to infringement thereof.
• Many a time Intellectual Property lawyers also act as scientists or engineers particularly the patent lawyers having technical background to understand the patents specifications on innovation in the patent applied for.
• Nevertheless, Intellectual Property lawyers are good advocates as they protect the intellectual property of their clients before the Intellectual Property Tribunals, Courts, and before the Customs Organizations.

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To provide in-depth study of the various forms of Intellectual Property like patents, copyrights, Trade marks, industrial designs etc. There has been global endeavour to provide education to:

(i) All intellectual property lawyers/law firms in India provide services such as registration, enforcement, litigation and licensing of trade marks, designs, patents, copyrights etc. Intellectual Property lawyer understands the technical nature of innovation or invention and assists the client in protecting and managing Intellectual Property portfolio.
(ii) Students in the Research Programme: Students can specialize in Intellectual Property law and can participate in making improvements to the existing inventions.
(iii) Chartered Accountant: Chartered Accountants value the client’s Intellectual Property and handle all the financial aspects of Intellectual Property by valuing it as capital asset.
(iv) Engineers and Science Graduates: This category of students can benefit in the creation of Intellectual Property by clearing the patent agent examination conducted regularly by the Patents Office.
(v) Brand Managers: The professionals in this line should possess in depth knowledge of the trade marks/logos of the product being used or promoted for sale as they work for the promotion and sale of the products they are attached to.

List of various institutes promoting or providing in-depth study of the various forms of Intellectual Property like patents, copyrights, Trade marks, industrial designs

‘Gurpreet Singh is a practicing Advocate with Amarjit & Associates, New Delhi, a leading law firm dealing in Intellectual Property Rights And Information & Communication Technology Laws having communication offices in New York & Zurich.

The area of practice includes Trade Marks, Copyrights, Patents, Industrial Designs. Trade Secrets And Cyber Laws’.

He can be reached at gurpreet@amarjitassociates.com 

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