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Intellectual Property Rights in India

The following publications focus on the process of change brought about by the adoption of the TRIPS Agreement and India's efforts to comply with its international obligations in this field. These publications focus on the links between intellectual property rights and biodiversity, agriculture and health.

 

Books

Philippe Cullet, Intellectual Property Protection and Sustainable Development (New Delhi: Lexis/Nexis - Butterworths, 2005) [ more info ]

 

Selected Academic Publications on Intellectual Property Rights

 

Revision of the TRIPS Agreement Concerning the Protection of Plant Varieties: Lessons from India Concerning the Development of a Sui Generis System

author(s): Philippe Cullet
source: 2 Journal of World Intellectual Property (1999), p. 617
date: 1999
publication: academic
abstract full text PDF 2534 [KB]
 

Property Rights over Biological Resources - India's Proposed Legislative Framework

author(s): Philippe Cullet
source: 4 Journal of World Intellectual Property (2001), p. 211
date: 2001
publication: academic
abstract full text PDF 1304 [KB]
 

Plant Variety Protection and Farmers' Rights - Towards a Broader Understanding

author(s): Philippe Cullet, Radika Kolluru
source: 24 Delhi Law Review 2002 (2003), p.41
date: 2003
publication: academic
abstract full text PDF 334 [KB]
 

Intellectual Property Rights and Biodiversity Management: The Case of India

author(s): Philippe Cullet, Jawahar Raja
source: 4/1 Global Environmental Politics (2004), p. 97
date: 2004
publication: academic
abstract full text PDF 162 [KB]
 

Seeds Regulation, Food Security and Sustainable Development

author(s): Philippe Cullet
source: 40/32 Economic & Political Weekly (6 August 2005)
date: 2005
publication: academic
abstract full text PDF 52 [KB]
 

Patents Bill, TRIPS and the Right to Health

author(s): Philippe Cullet
source: 36/43 Economic and Political Weekly (2001), p. 4049
date: 2001
publication: academic
abstract full text PDF 44 [KB]
 

Amended Patents Act and Access to Medicines after Doha

author(s): Philippe Cullet
source: 37/24 Economic and Political Weekly (2002), p. 2278
date: 2002
publication: academic
abstract full text PDF 41 [KB]
 

Farmers' Rights in India: Assessing Conceptual and Implementation Issues

author(s): Sujith Koonan
source: 4/1 Dehradun Law Review (2012), p. 29.
date: 2012
publication: academic
abstract full text PDF 524 [KB]
 

For an Alternative Patents Regime

author(s): Philippe Cullet
source: 16/21 Frontline, 22 October 1999, p. 90
date: 1999
publication: newspaper
abstract full text PDF 44 [KB]
 

Farmers' Rights in Peril

author(s): philippe Cullet
source: 17/7 Frontline, 1 April 2000, p. 71
date: 2000
publication: newspaper
abstract full text PDF 38 [KB]