“Intellect Eclipsed”: An Analysis of the Unconscious Bias and its Impact on the Development of Intellectual Property Law.

Abstract

The main objective of the research is to analyze the historical development of intellectual property law and its contemporary challenges in light of the feminist jurisprudential interpretations. The secondary objective is to examine the probable links between the areas in intellectual property law such as copyrights law, patent law and application of the relevant theoretical paradigms of feminist legal theory. The research methodology is based on the exploratory research design, adhering into the legal research methodology, which is mainly on library-based secondary data review. The outcome of this inter-disciplinary research is a policy paper to recognize the dynamics of historical discrimination in order to overcome the contemporary challenges in gendered areas of intellectual property law.