The present framework has incorporated the TRIPs agreement whose major provisions are based so as to protect the interest of western countries as well as to protect their industrial as well as economic interest in the developing and least developed countries. This paper is an attempt to analyze...

The literature on the Indian pharmaceutical industry has examined the importance of product patents and the attempts policy has made to regulate them. However, it has not done the same for the question of brands. Our study addresses this gap. The Tariff Commission Report of 1968, a turning point...