Intellectual property (IP) nurtures and encourages innovation and creativity, for this reason every individual must be aware about Intellectual property and Intellectual property Act. In any society innovation and creativity contributes towards cultural and economic development. We know that Intellectual Property (IP) refers to such property which has both moral and commercial value that comes out from the human intellect that may be a creation of human minds, inventions, copyrights on musical, literary, dramatic, artistic works and symbols, names, images used in commerce etc’. IP is important almost in every part of our modern life. Government of India is taking many initiatives to spread awareness about Intellectual Property Rights among the people. In academic world Intellectual Property Right is a very commonly used term now a day. It is expected that the academic world involved in teaching-learning and research should have awareness on Intellectual Property Rights. In this research article an attempt has been made to have a glimpse on the awareness level on Intellectual Property Rights among the rural and urban college teachers of West Bengal. For this survey based qualitative approach has been adopted.