IPR IN BIOTECHNOLOGY AND LIFE SCIENCES

Abstract

This chapter focuses on the extremely sticky matter of the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in the booming biotechnology and the existence sciences sector of India. It stresses that they play a major role in business and economic development (Kumari, 2023). The emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, block chain, and biological technology, are influential to the intellectual property systems to a great extent. Such examination of their effects is required in normative revolution (Unnikrishnan, 2024). This discussion looks at challenges and opportunities availed by this convergence that brings us to the understanding of the enhancement of the IPR situation especially with regards to the patent law, copyrights, and trademark legislations (Unnikrishnan, 2024). Since IPR faces research on how it was invented and evolved in the past, knowledge of the history will help us to consider how emerging technologies change accepted legal practices (Unnikrishnan, 2024). Most specifically, the use of the artificial intelligence poses extra obstacles to patentable and protection of the algorithmic invention. This necessitates close mindset on what this involves (Unnikrishnan, 2024). In addition, it can be argued that the phenomenon of AI application in the biotechnological research has raised numerous critical issues including inventorship, ownership, and intellectual protection, especially in situations where the AI system is discovered independently (Rajeevan and B, 2025). The economic impact of AI on intellectual property is another issue addressed in this discussion since it is considered a boosting factor and disruptor of innovation and creativity in the life sciences (Cuntz et al., 2024).