Intellectual Property Rights in India : General Issues and Implications
Contents: List of contributors. Introduction. I. General issues: 1. Intellectual property rights protection: some issues and concerns/Sib Ranjan Misra. 2. TRIPs Regime and the catching up of the rich by the poor/Prabirjit Sarkar. 3. A primer on trade related intellectual property rights/Ram Pratap Sinha. 4. IPR in life form--imperatives and implications/Subhasis Mukhopadhyay. 5. Are intellectual property rights morally justified? An assessment/Debendra Narayan Bhattacharya. 6. Biotechnology patenting: the way forward/Biswajit Dhar. II. Implications: 7. WTO, TRIPs and TRIMs--implications for developing nations/Biswajit Chatterjee. 8. Reconciling Third Patents (Amendment) Act with the TRIPs Agreement of WTO: Does it increase India\'s global competitiveness?/Swapan Kumar Bhattacharya. 9. Guarding creativity: intellectual property rights and laws in India/Simi T.B. 10. Intellectual property rights and pharmaceutical sector in India/Amarjit Singh Sethi. 11. Intellectual property rights and India\'s trade performance in pharmaceutical exports/K. Murugavelu. 12. WTO, Intellectual property rights and Indian agriculture/Debesh Bhowmik. 13. WTO, Trade related intellectual property rights and Indian agriculture/Aparajita Mukherjee. 14. TRIPs and agriculture/R. Meenakshi. 15. Impact of the Patent Regime on Indian agriculture/Dhirendra Nath Konar. 16. TRIPs--its impact on the Indian economy/Gyan Prabha Agarwal. 17. A note on the proposed amendments of the Indian Copyright Act/Raj Kumar Sen. 18. Patent cases in India: its implications/Uttam Kumar Bhattacharyya. Index.
"Intellectual Property Rights: General Issues and Implication is an edited volume based on papers presented at the Ministry of Human Resource Development sponsored Seminar organized by the Department of Economics, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata and invited papers from the distinguished scholars. Thematically these papers are arranged into two sections: (i) General Issues and (ii) Implications.
The book contains also an editorial introduction. It is expected that the book will be useful to academicians, researchers, and the general reader interested in international economics in the context of WTO Regime of Intellectual Property Rights." (jacket)
