The decade following India's accession to the World Trade Organization's Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property … ushered in numerous changes to the country's patent system, culminating in a series of amendments in 2005. But a functioning … patent system is more than a statute. This paper discusses the steps that India must still take to develop an effective …

Policy makers around the world recognize the potentially harmful consequences of trademark counterfeiting and copyright …

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the institutional predecessor of the World Trade Organization, incorporated …

The idea behind patent policies is to increase the output of commercially useful innovations by creating a transitory … types of considerations need to be addressed. First, there are issues of designing an appropriate patent system. This … intellectual property rights. Second, and more fundamentally, the investments that patent incentives trigger in research and …

The authors present a database of indicators of innovative activity around the world since the early 1960s. The data …

cultural sector a crucial part of the wealth of nations, and how could the World Bank Group better leverage the performing arts … data, 4. promoting intellectual property training programs, 5. supporting digital platforms in the developing world that …

markets. Based on a review of World Intellectual Property Report indicators, the patent ownership gap between a sample of …This paper outlines and evaluates several intellectual property monetization strategies available to patent holders in …, based on complementary International Monetary Fund Balance of Payments data, the patent commercialization divide (as …