Patent and trade disparities in developing countries / Srividhya Ragavan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ragavan, Srividhya, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Patent laws and legislation--Developing countries.

Patent laws and legislation.

Foreign trade regulation--Developing countries.

Foreign trade regulation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 401 p. ) ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Summary:

In this work, Srividhya Ragavan examines the interaction between trade and intellectual property regimes (using the patent regime in India as the focal point) in an integrated developmental framework to determine how sustainable economic growth can be achieved in developing countries.

For developing countries, the concept of sustainable development, as opposed to rapid pockets of development, embodies great promise for socio-political reasons. Most analyses of development, however, have focused on either trade mechanisms or intellectual-property regimes, which has resulted in overly narrow and sometimes paradoxical conclusions, with corresponding policy measures that have promised far more than they can deliver. While each of these mechanisms has benefits anddisadvantages, questions about how they would interact and what kind of results they produce remain largely unexplored. Similarly, almost all of these regimes provide generalized solutions that developing countries tend to denounce as ill-fitting. There are several flexibilities that can be used aseffective tools, but knowing which flexibility applies best to what context remains contentious. In Patent and Trade Disparities in Developing Countries, Srividhya Ragavan examines the interaction between trade and intellectual property regimes (using the patent regime in India as the focal point) in an integrated developmental framework to determine whether and how sustainable economic growth can be achieved in developing countries.This book examines a number of important questions: Is compulsory licensing the best way to provide access to medication or is patent protection more efficient? Should innovation in plant breeding be protected at all? If so, should it be using patents or a sui generis mechanism?

Contents:

Correlation between patents & development : lessons from history

The unequals : national realities & patent regimes of the developing world

The international trade regime in perspective

The poor nations harmonize

The missing piece of the trips puzzle : procedural mechanisms

TRIPS patent regime: the poverty penalty

Is a substantive regime adequate to generate full compliance : the biotechnology debate

Dying to dine -the story of the great agricultural barrier

The debate on plant variety protection

Harvesting poverty : the PBR story in a subsidy plot

Biodiversity : the third but ignored paradigm of the trade regime

Can the trade regime lead to sustainable development?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-994978-6

0-19-996934-5

0-19-999621-0

OCLC:

960165604