Dhanapalan, P.TANUVAS2018-07-252018-07-252009-09http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810062007IPR is an acronym that hardly needs to be expanded nowadays. We encounter intellectual property at every step of our life today. The design on the bed sheet and the pillow covers, the bed and other items of furniture in the house, the cereals for break fast, the pasteurised milk in tetra pack, the soft drinks and their bottles, the television, the personal computer, the gas stove, the microwave oven, the refrigerator, the vehicles, the weighing machine, the books, the films, the music cassettes, the tiles, the paints, and practically everything we use is the product of man’s ingenuity, knowledge and skill, besides labour and capital; and it falls under some kind of intellectual property that had to be respected before the item could be lawfully manufactured.en-USVeterinary ScienceBioinformaticsBook chapter