Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) are rights given to persons over ‘creations of the mind’ for which exclusive ownership is recognized. Specific IPR protections include: copyright, which describes the legal rights creators have over their artistic and literary works; patents, which grants exclusive rights over inventions and decides how - or whether - the invention can be used by others; trademarks, which allow goods or services of one enterprise to be distinguished from others; industrial designs, which protects ornamental or aesthetic…