Abstract
This paper aims to highlight the importance of most imperative
and serious concern of intellectual property rights in academic
world of Pakistan. This paper is highlights the status of
intellectual property rights in context of constitution of Pakistan.
It's also investigated the awareness of Intellectual Property
Rights (IPR) among faculty in the universities. This paper has
investigated the Need of Intellectual Property Rights in
Education of Pakistan: Review of Constitution, Current status
and Expectations. The major focus of the study is to examine the
constitution of Pakistan and investigate the perspective of
university faculty regarding IPR. It was descriptive research and
content analysis method is used. This qualitative research
reviews the constitution of Pakistan and highlights the codes of
intellectual property rights. Furthermore the data was collected
with informal interview from faculty of federal universities. After
the review it was found that awareness is much needed to
improve framework on Intellectual Property Protection.
Especially IPR condition and work with law and HEC is needed
for better identification, planning, commercialization,
representation, for protection of invention or creativity. As a
Muslim I want to quoted, the moral basis for protection of
Intellectual Property finds its mention in the Holy Quran: “Do
not usurp one another’s property by unjust means, nor bribe
with it the judges in order that you may knowingly and
wrongfully deprive others of a part of their possessions”
Khushbakht Hina, Saima Batool, Muhammad Khalique, Zafar Iqbal. (2017) Intellectual Property Rights in Education of Pakistan: Review of Constitution, Current Status and Expectations , The Dialogue, Volume 12, Issue 2.
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