1.5 Concept and Sources of Intellectual Property Law

The sources' stack: the national statutes (the PDT Act 2022 B.S.; the Copyright Act 2059; the supporting regimes (the unfair-competition faces of the Competition-and-consumer laws; the Contract Act's faces for the licences)); the international treaties (1.6.2's-and-each-unit's instruments — the TRIPS' direct reach through the WTO membership); the Treaty Act 2047's domestication (the ratified-treaty-as-law (the Constitutional-Law's interface)); the subordinaterules (the Department's registration-procedures; the Copyright Registrar's rules); and the caselaw (the Supreme Court's IP line — the prescribed cases' world; the doctrine's slow build).