On  December  3,  1984,  Union  Carbide's  pesticide-manufacturing  plant  in  Bhopal,  India leaked 40 tons of the deadly gas, methyl isocyanate into a sleeping, impoverished community - killing 2,500 within a few days, 10000 permanently disabled and injuring 100,000 people. Ten years later, it increased to 4000 to 7000 deaths and injuries to 600,000. Risks taken: •  Storage tank of Methyl Isocyanate gas was filled to more than 75% capacity as against Union Carbide’s spec. that it should never be more than 60% full. •    The  company’s  West  Virginia  plant  was  controlling  the  safety  systems  and  detected leakages thro’ computers but the Bhopal plant only used manual labour for control and leak detection. •    The Methyl Isocyanate gas, being highly concentrated, burns parts of body with which it comes into contact, even blinding eyes and destroying lungs. Causal Factors: •    Three protective systems out of service •    Plant was understaffed due to costs. •    Very high inventory of MIC, an extremely toxic material. •    The accident occurred in the early morning.…

A patentee gets the exclusive monopoly right against the public at large to use, sell…

Encourages an inventor to disclose his invention Encourages R & D activities as the industries…

The right to original literary and artistic works •    Literary, written material •    Dramatic, musical or artistic works •    Films and audio-visual materials •    Sound recordings •    Computer Programmes/software •    SOME databases Example: Picasso’s Guernica, Microsoft code, Lord of the Rings

Trade Mark is a name or symbol adopted for identifying goods     Public can identify…

 Meant for beautifying an industrial product to attract the consumer public     Shaping, Configuration or…

1.   Derived from the Latin word ‘LITTERAE PATENTES’ which means ‘Open Letters’ or ‘Open Documents’ to…

Intellectual Property is a product of the human intellect that has commercial value Many of…

-    Discrimination generally means preference on the grounds of sex, race, skin color, age or religious outlook. -    In everyday speech, it has come to mean morally unjustified treatment of people on arbitrary or irrelevant grounds. -  Therefore to call something ‘Discrimination” is to condemn it.  -  But when the question of justification arises, we will call it ‘Preferential Treatment’.

Employee rights are any rights, moral or legal, that involve the status of being an…