Intellectual Property Rights Management in Developing Countries

Contents: Foreword. Introduction. I. African continent: 1. South African intellectual property rights status report/Sheila Mavis Nyatlo. 2. Intellectual property IP in Botswana: research but no patents/Botshelo Maedza. 3. Intellectual property rights: situation in Botswana/Letsomo la Tshipa. 4. Country report on IP policy and IP related laws/Petros Orton Shiyombo Musukwa. 5. Zambia: status paper on intellectual property/Thompson Namukaba. 6. Intellectual property management in Zambia/Lloyd Samson Thole. 7. IPR management in Tanzania: the role of Tanzania intellectual property advisory services and information centre TIPASIC/Judith F. Kadege. 8. Protection of traditional knowledge in Uganda/Stephen Rwagweri Atwooki. 9. Intellectual property/Frederick Okumu. 10. The scientists and IPR in a resource starved nation: NIPRD IPTTO experience/Emeje, Martins and Gamaniel Karnyius.  II. American continent: 11. The intellectual property rights in Mexico: the tequila case/Ana Paula Ramfrez Ramfrez. 12. Intellectual property system in Panama: biodiversity and traditional knowledge/Catherina Caballero George and Leonardo Uribe. 13. Research and development networks in Colombia: an answer for the research ownership exploitation challenge/Maria Consuelo Velasquez. III. Asian continent: 14. Intellectual property rights in Iraq/Teriza Jasim Ridha. 15. Intellectual property rights in Pakistan: role of PCSIR for strengthening the IPR system for national growth/Syeda Rumla Naqvi, Nighat Afza and Tanzil Haider Usmani. 16. Status of intellectual property rights IPR with reference to genetic resources in Nepal/Chiranjivi Regmi. 17. The current situation of intellectual property in the Kingdom of Cambodia/Chhean Piseth. 18. Lesser known horticultural products as geographical indications in India/S.K. Soam and Mujarrab Hussain. 19. Ecosystem for IPR in India especially for patents/Yashwant Dev Panwar. 20. Status of the intellectual property system in  Myanmar/Phyo Mon win. 21. The intellectual property regime in Sri Lanka and its new trends/Merengnege Antony Mervyn Fernando. 22. The status of Indonesian intellectual property rights/Anny Sulaswatty.

Intellectual Property Rights IPR has virtually touched all spheres of human lives including social cultural economic and technical areas and is fast becoming a tool for the national development in the context of globalization of trade and commerce and emerging knowledge world order. In this context, developing countries have many challenges to face while evolving their own IP systems in order to satisfy their public policy needs and developmental goals. These countries have responded to the new order in different ways and have tried to handle global IPR issues with a sense of commonalty especially in the matters related to protection of genetic resources and traditional knowledge. There is a sense of urgency in developing IP systems in each country to derive maximum benefit from the IPR system to address efficient utilisation of innovations and creativity. Besides this, scientists and technologists can no longer plan and execute their researches without being adequately prepared with the state of the art information driven IPR systems and thus need to have clear and sound understanding of the principles of IPR and good practices of its protection and exploitation. (jacket)