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Contribution of Journal of Intellectual Property Rights (JIPR) in IPR Research: A View through the Articles Published in the Last Decade of Twentieth-Century (1996–1999)

Contribution of Journal of Intellectual Property Rights (JIPR) in IPR Research: A View through the Articles Published in the Last Decade of Twentieth-Century (1996–1999)

JIPR has significantly contributed in the dissemination of IP information and knowledge, and also in creating IP knowledge and awareness by publishing quality research articles on an open access platform.

Authors

Aqa Raza, Assistant Lecturer, Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana, India.

Kanika Malik, CSIR–National Institute of Science, Communication and Policy Research (CSIR–NIScPR), New Delhi, India

Summary

This paper seeks to review the articles published in the Journal of Intellectual Property Rights (JIPR) in the last decade of the  twentieth  century  from  Volume  1(1)  (1996)  to  Volume  4(6)  (1999).  There  are  seven  intellectual  property  (IP)  statutes  in  force  in  India.  When  JIPR published  its  first  Volume  in  the  year  1996,  only  two  IP  statutes,  legislated  and  enacted  in    post-independent India, were in force, namely: (i) The Copyright Act, 1957; and (ii) The Patents Act, 1970 — enacted after 10 years  and  23  years  respectively  after  the  independence  of  the  country.  Nevertheless,  the  Imperial  Act  on  designs  was  also  in  force by the virtue of Article 372 of the Constitution of India, until the Indian Parliament enacted a separate statute on designs.

Two statutes were enacted in 1999 and the other three statutes were enacted in the first decade of the 21st century but some of them  took  a  time  of  almost  a  decade  to  come  into  force.  For  convenience,  the  papers  published  in  JIPR have  been  reviewed  year-wise. Paper attempts to identify the: (i) total number of issues published; (ii) total number of articles published; (iii) total number of contributions made by the Indian and foreign scholars; (iv) total number of sole and joint publications; (v) publishing style of JIPR; and (vi) area of IP covered in the publications. JIPR since its inception has aimed to fill void in the IP literature in general and the Indian IP literature in particular.  

Paper develops an argument that JIPR has significantly contributed in the dissemination of IP information and knowledge, and also in creating IP knowledge and awareness by publishing quality research articles on an open access platform.

Published in: Journal of Intellectual Property Rights

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