The innovation, efficiency and productivity responses to the stronger protection of intellectual property rights post-TRIPs …, with reference to manufacturing industry in India is studied. The fact that the post-TRIPs strengthening of IPRs in India …

TRIPS is a reality and India has to rework its patent law to conform to it. But that does not mean that we have a … patent law that provides for TRIPS plus rules. Our interest lies in taking full advantage of any flexibility available in the …

WTO, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of … Plants (UPOV) and the World Health Organization (WHO), as well as the actions of NGOs active in the field of human rights …-Romande]. URL:[http://www.css-romande.ch/downloads/trips+/cssr_AdpicPlus_en.pdf]. …

This paper looks at the effects of WTO/TRIPS and pharmaceuticals on women. The focus is on the poor and women. The …

Under certain conditions it is optimal for the noninnovating south to give patent protection for a longer time period … than the innovating north. A cooperative patent agreement involves a larger protection by each country compared to the non …

countries via licensing is analyzed. Using panel data for the post-TRIPs period 1995-2005, it is found that stronger protection …

The focus of this paper is India. In line with TRIPS India has introduced a product patent regime in pharmaceuticals … new drugs more suited to the needs of India and other developing countries? Can the innovation capabilities be utilized …