Dr. Shubhangi Bajaj Bag, Assistant Professor of Law, Department of Legal Science, Techno India University, Kolkata
ABSTRACT
IPRs have historically been governed at the international level by a number of agreements, most notably the Paris Convention for the Protection of Patents, Trademarks and Industrial Designs. An early international convention governing intellectual property is the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property. The Paris Convention, originally signed in 1883 by eleven countries, is the forerunner of all contemporary multilateral intellectual property protection. The Convention is currently ratified by the vast majority of nations with any type of patent protection, as well as numerous nations without any patent protection because it also deals with trademarks and designs. The present article seeks to highlight the Indian incorporation of the Paris Convention and the visible deviations. It seeks to draw an analogy between the two to substantiate the extent of coverage that Indian laws (on Intellectual Property Rights) provide for industrial property. India accessed the Paris Convention on September 7, 1998 and it came into force from December 7, 1998.
