Human Enhancement Technologies: Protection Under IPR

  • Blessy Priya Niranjana and Sonasri S
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  • Blessy Priya Niranjana

    Assistant Professor at Bharath Institute of Law, India.

  • Sonasri S

    Assistant Professor at Bharath Institute of Law, India.

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Abstract

As mankind increases so does technology, it has improved in such way that it has helped in replacing biological creature parts with mechanical or electronic components. A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a creature of science fiction and a creature of social reality, a living being whose powers are enhanced by computer implants or mechanical body parts. Cyborgs improves the functions of human body parts with the help of technology, such acts raises serious legal and political questions. A new class of individuals might be created, for instance, if implants are successfully implanted into humans, new cognitive and motor abilities emerge as a result. Without a doubt a legitimate and political reaction would be basic for this unused course of people with astounding capacity. However, they resemble more as machines than men or women, the question of what legal rights could be granted to these individuals arises. The following legal considerations are crucial: the laws governing cyborgs' obligations and rights, as well as access rules. As we become more advanced with cyborg technology, it is more important to ask what legal rights are involved when using technology to fix, enhance, and improve the human body and mind, and how law would treat such technologically enhanced persons from general population This article looks at various laws and regulations governing this new kind of intellectual property from various jurisdictions in the United States, the European Union, and India regarding cyborg technology.

Keywords

  • Cyborg
  • Human Body Part Enhancement
  • Neuroprostheses
  • Patent Law and Copyright
  • Semiconductor Chip Protection Act
  • International Law
  • India.

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International Journal of Law Management and Humanities, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 4092 - 4102

DOI: https://doij.org/10.10000/IJLMH.119483

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