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" INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN PAKISTAN* INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN PAKISTAN*   By   Kamran Adil" Khalid Ishaq'"   INTRODUCTION   The law locks up the mart or woman who steals the goose from off the common and geese will still a common lack till they go and steal it back.   The debate about the artificial nature of intellectual property rights is not new. There is a sharp difference of opinion: some argue that information cannot be monopolized,   * In writing this article we are indebted to many a soul. Our special thanks to Mr. Yasin Tahir, Ex-DG of IPO-Pakistan, Mr. Muhammad Ismail, DD of IPO Lahore, Mr. Rizwan Basharat, Ex DD of IPO-Lahore, Mr. Hassan lrfan Khan.   *** Kamran Adil is an officer of Police Service of Pakistan. He has done his LLB (Hons) Shariah &Law from the International Islamic University. Islamabad, and has done his BCL from the University of Oxford.   *** Khalid Ishaq is Practising Law at Lahore. He has done his LLB (Hons) Shariah & Law from the International Islamic University Islamabad, and has done his LL.M (Corporate Law) from the University College London therefore the concept of intellectual property is artificial and must be demolished; others contend that 'it is the legal form of information age'1 and is a sine qua non of the capital economy. In Pakistan's case, the IP ' laws predate its independence; the IP regime was recondite. A new impetus, however, was added to the IP regime after Pakistan became part of the World Trade Organization and after ratifying the Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement. Consequently, rewriting the old IP laws was done besides establishing new infrastructure in form of Intellectual Property Organization of Pakistan, which…