Awareness of the Intellectual Property Right among the Faculty Members of BLDE and SECAB Engineering College Vijayapura (District) Karnataka

The present study exploresthe awareness of Intellectual Property Right among the facultymembers of engineering BLDE, SECAB engineering colleges in Vijayapura. A survey method of research was used where in structuredquestionnaire was used for collecting required datafrom faculty members of engineering colleges. The study found that majority of the faculty have knowledge about Intellectual Property Rightits types such as patent, copyright, trademark, fair use infringement and rules regulations and policies of IPR. And issues related to privacy and security both print and electronic version. IPR includes: movies, music, software, books paintings, words, symbols, phrases, designs, formulas of the chemical, etc.