Leading International Instruments Concerning IPR :

The International Intellectual Property System is in fact a system of accumulated practices rather than a set of fixed rules. It is the practice of international relations in the matter of legal protection of inventions and literary and artistic works, resulting from and governed by both national legislation defining the treatment to be granted to foreigners, and international treaties concerning such treatment. It may be emphasised that a country’s laws defining the rights of the foreigners form part of the international system even when, the country is not party to any international treaty on the subject, for such laws form the basis upon which in practice intellectual property is protected in more than one country. There are number of International Treaties/Conventions which deal with the various aspects of intellectual property and industrial property. These Conventions are administered by World Intellectual Property Organisation, popularly known as WIPO.