IPR vs LIBRARY

One of our colleague expressed doubt regarding how IPR (Intellectual property rights) is related to our library and our profession.

As he was attended one seminar on "Issues beyond Patent, with Focus on: Patent Commercialization". From that he came to know about commercialization of patents, factors impacting patent licensing and many more. But according to his view the presentation made over in seminar is scientist aspect. The doubt what he got is quite obvious because many people will get the same, whoever not aware of, not even our profession side other side also. Here our Information scientists will comes into picture.

I will try to let you know in brief as per my knowledge concerned. IPR is a part of Research and development in Industrial age. Most of R&D organizations having IPR as a department. Their major role is filing patents (getting license) in international and domestic market on current working and concerned projects either infringing or noninfringing. Patent is one of the most important source of information which can be defined as a formal description of an innovation. Accordingly patent documents are highly useful for R&D activities. Some times IPR dept itself can do all the process according to their requirement; their requirements can be based on sources/facilities which are available in R&D Library like

Down loading patents
Patents Clipping Service
CD-ROM databases
Patent Index to Chemical Abstract books
Patent related journals / IPR Journals
IPR Related books
Controller General of Patents and Design
Patent Gazettes
Online IPR related database Access
Conducting Literature Search
Intellectual Property Rights Bulletins

These are the minimum things one R&D Library should have to run IPR.
Our Information Scientists can perform all the above tasks while updating all the resources to their concerned scientists and keeping them current literature in mind. This may give ground idea on IPR concerned to library and many more interrelated things, if we go in deep like patents organizing, sorting, downloading, searching, storing etc. and when the new patents will release?, what are the equivalents?, is it concerned to their projects/current work?.

It is more interesting if we study further.