I will try let you know in brief, IPR is a part of Research and development in Industrial age. Most of R&D organizations having IPR as a department. Their major role is filing patents (getting license) in international and domestic market on current working and concerned projects. Patent is one of the most important source of information which can be defined as a formal description of an innovation. Accordingly patent documents are highly useful for R&D activities. Some times IPR dept itself can do all the process according to their requirements; their requirements can be based on sources/facilities which are available in R&D Library like Down loading patents Patents Clipping Service CD-ROM databases Patent Index to Chemical Abstract books Patent related journals / IPR Journals IPR Related books Controller General of Patents and Design Patent Gazettes Online IPR related database Access Conducting Literature Search Intellectual Property Rights Bulletins These are the minimum things one R&D Library should have to run IPR. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.