The globalized Indian economy now conforms to WTO’s laws of protection of intellectual property rights, though the economy faces greatly intensified price and non price competition. Patents make imitation and reverse engineering difficult. IPRs are used for protecting, projecting, propagating and positioning of brand image of companies and their products. Branding facilitates the acquiring and ...

The creative universe is constantly expanding and so is its dimensionality with new forms of arts and entertainment, new technologies and new scientific specialties. Legal and economic conditions easily get turbulent in the drag of this expansion process, creating all sorts of idiosyncracies, puzzles and paradoxes surrounding legal rights and economic values associated with creators and their c...

We consider a policy regime allowing academic institutions to grant industry the intellectual property rights (IPRs) over invention resulting from collaborations. If a firm plays an important role in generating an invention, the researcher offers the IPRs to the firm, as an incentive to collaborate. However, he retains certain domains where he can exploit an invention without having to apply fo...

Free Trade and Protection of Intellectual Property Rights: Can We Have One Without the Other?* This Paper is concerned with the interaction between trade policies and the protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs). In particular, it investigates, within the framework of a general equilibrium model with endogenous growth, the welfare implications of an international agreement on one or bo...

This article uses the contemporary international politics of intellectual property rights (IPRs) as a lens to examine North-South conflicts over international economic governance and the possibilities of institutional reform. Although developing countries have limited control over the distributional and substantive dimensions of international institutions, they retain an important stake in a ru...

The article aims to shed light on the topic of vaccine diplomacy and role IPR trademarks in crisis. research design is explanatory. data collection methods analysis have been discussed. quantitative has shown that “regression model” was insignificant as higher prices vaccines allowed countries enjoy profit imposition IPRs forces poor buy from “developed countries”. qualitative tends show create...

Economic theory highlights the critical importance of excludability in encouraging private research and development in the agri-food sector. Without it, private research will languish and social welfare could suffer. Since 1970 governments around the world have recognized this and strengthened the legal protections for biotechnology processes and products (e.g. patents, plant breeders’ rights a...