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1. Intellectual property rights (IPRs) are rights governed by statute that provide individuals with a right to prevent others from exploiting or abusing their intellectual creations.These rights extend to the protection of inventions, creative works, expressions and brands.

   • The more common forms of IPR are patents, trade
     • Patents
       • It is a legal title granted to an applicant for the protection of an invention. The patent is granted for a period exclusivity of 20-year in most countries. The title granted provides the owner a monopoly on exploitation (making, use, selling, offering for sale and importing) of the invention
         • Conventions and treaties
           • Every country’s legislation includes laws for the protection of IP, However, most countries signed up to international agreements and treaties on the protection of IP and, thus, their patent systems are harmonised to a great extent, such that patent protection at an international level can be conveniently facilitated, registered and administered transnationally in an efficient and economic manner.
             • Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
             • European Patent Convention (EPC).
     • Trade marks
     • Copyright
       • is a form of intellectual property designed to protect the rights of a creator of literary and artistic works, computer programs, and databases.t does not provide protection for the ideas, concepts or inventions.Rather, it protects the "expression" of the ideas and concepts of the author or creator.Copyright is generally applied to prevent copying, plagiarism, and misuse of a work
         • Granting of Copyright
           • copyright does not require any formal application or registration for protection of a creative work. Copyright comes into operation automatically the moment a work is completed
             • Works Protected by Copyright
               • original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works, published editions of works, sound recordings, films, videos, broadcasts and cable programmes, computer programs and databases.
                 • International Protection
                   • there are international treaties that deal with copyright and to which most countries have signed up
                     • the Berne Convention
                       • protection of literary and artistic works
                     • Universal Copyright Convention (UCC)
     • Design rights
     • Secret Know-How
     • Other very important, but specialised, forms of IPR include plant variety rights database rights for the ICT and chip topography rights