This book aims to serve as a useful resource for academicians, students, researchers and policymakers. It provides the reader first-hand information on intellectual property rights (IPR), biosafety and bioethics. The book is divided into three major headings and covered in 22 chapters. IPR covers introduction to intellectual property rights, conventions and treaties related to IPR copyrights, related rights and trademarks, patent and patenting authorities, industrial design and geographical indications, intellectual property rights and biodiversity, intellectual property rights and biotechnology, intellectual property for computer and computer programs, intellectual property rights in pharmaceutical and medicine, intellectual property rights in Indian scenario, and practical approaches to IPR searching. Biosafety section includes introduction to biosafety, biosafety for handling microorganisms, biosafety in healthcare, biosafety in chemical laboratories, biosafety and genetically modified organisms (GMOs), biosafety regulatory bodies, guidelines and databases, World Health Organization (WHO) and epidemics. The Bioethics section covers bioethics in intellectual property rights, environmental ethics, bioethics in health sector, and research ethics.
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