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From: Indian Journal of Pharmacology | Date: March 1, 2004| Author: Singh, J | Copyright information

One of the intense legal buzzwords of the late 1990s through today is "Intellectual Property Rights" (IPR). The issue was first raised in 1873, when foreign exhibitors refused to display their products at the International Exhibition of Inventions in Vienna because they were afraid that their ideas would be stolen and used for monetary gain by people in the other countries. In order to address these fears the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property was signed in 1883 which ...

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