India and consequently increased the patent scope with concerns of compulsory licensing assuming greater significance. The …Compulsory License (CL) under the Patent system is an involuntary contract between a willing buyer and an unwilling … to produce the patented product or process without the consent of the patent owner. It is one of the flexibilities on …

describes a quantitative story about how the issue might possibly unfold if India and South Africa utilized the framework …

, India and other countries. Ample evidence, including patented AZT for HIV/AIDS treatment, showed that patents could make …

patent system is more than a statute. This paper discusses the steps that India must still take to develop an effective …. This paper's recommendations would help India achieve both a fully functioning patent system and a mechanism for ensuring …The decade following India's accession to the World Trade Organization's Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property …

of the developing world introduces patent protection for new drug products. This may lead to more research on drugs to … those already offering such protection the situation offers a unique opportunity to examine the incentive role of patent … protection. We use new survey data from India, the results of interviews with industry, government and multinational institutions …

(IPRs) enforcement, with special reference to injunctions in India. It examines how far the courts consider the implications … public interest aspect and human rights implications while granting injunctions in patent litigation. Moreover, it asserts … that the courts should exercise prudence in granting injunctive relief in cases involving patent infringement, and take …

. Relying on cross-industry differences in the use of patents, we exploit firm-level variation in exposure to India's patent …We study the effect of stronger patent protection on innovation activities of firms and firm-product level markups … reform. For firms more exposed to stronger patent protection, we find an increase in patenting and R&D expenditure post …