Introduction to Intellectual
Property Rights and its Regime
Understanding Intellectual Property Rights,
Rationale of Patent System, An Overview of the IPR
Regime, Intellectual Property System, Trademarks-Mother
of the Advertising Industry, Europeans and Intellectual
Property Rights : A Case Study, Intellectual Property in
Everyday Life - A Virtual Tour, Conceptual and Legal
Understanding of Intellectual Property Rights,
Intellectual in UK : A Case Study, Design Protection in
UK, General Economics and Political Economy of IPR,
Economics of Filmed Entertainment, Political Economy of
Intellectual Property, Board Overview of IPR Themes,
Glossary, Intellectual Property Rights Education in the
Creative Industries.
The Expanding Realm of International IPR System
Internationalisation the Capitalist Class, The
Transnationalization of Communications and Culture,
Logic of Capital and Intellectual Property Rights, Class
Theoretical Position, Copyrights for Cable
Retransmission in Canada, International Copyright
Conflicts, Copyright Foreign Policy Apparatus,
Hollywood's International Antipiracy Campaign, Forms of
Videocassette Piracy, Piracy in the Middle East, Video
Piracy in Asia, Multila-teralism : US Accession to Berne
and GATT Reform, GATT Revision, Impact of Intellectual
Property Rights on the International and Regional
Stages, The International Division of Labour and the
Protection of Intellectual Property Rights, Impact of
Rise of Global Intellectual Property Rights in Asia, IP
Rights Management in Australia, A Developing Country's
Perspective on IPR, Support for Economic and Political
Freedom and IPR, Emerging Issues in Intellectual
Property, Developments having an Impact on Intellectual
Property Protection, The Government Contract
Intellectual Property Institute, IPR in Information Age,
Issues in Access to Information, Recommendations for
Research and Data Collection, Guidelines for use in
Formulating Law and Public Policy, Intellectual Property
Rights : Problems, Patterns and Policy, Technologies for
Intellectual Property Protection, Preliminaries,
Encryption, Digital Signatures, Management of Encryption
Keys : Public-Key Infrastructure, Management of
Encryption Keys : Used and Middleware Issues, Marking
and Monitoring, Cryptographic Envelopes,
Superdistribution.
Protecting Digital Intellectual Property : Means and
Measurements
Introduction, Technical Protection, Characteristics
of the DTCP Copy Protection Standard, Digital Video
Disks, Technical Protection Services, The Role of
Business Models in the Protection of Intellectual
Property, Illegal Commercial Copying, The Impact of
Granting Patents for Information Innovations,
Information Economics : A Primer, Information Creation,
Distribution and Consumption, Information Supply
Compensating Information Creators, Role of Intellectual
Property, Enforcement Issue, Intellectual Property and
the National Information, Development of the Report,
Recommendation Clarification of Existing Rights,
Application of Fair Use Privileges, Technological
Protection Systems and Information, Support of Pending
Legislation, Other Recommen-dations and Findings,
Current and Emerging Requirements for Digital Rights
Management, Emergence of the Digital Dilemma While
Dealing with IPR in USA, Upsetting an Enduring Balance,
Scholarly Publishing Intellectual Property in the
Electronic Environment, Strategies for Reinvesting
Scholarly Communication, Electronic Intellectual
Property Rights.
An Introductory Overview of the Patents Regime
Introduction, Non-obviousness, Patent Coope-ration
Treaty, FD, Patent Term Extensions and the Hatch Waxman
Act, Exploitation of Patents.
International Patent Agenda and the Risk for
Developing Countries
Introduction, Patent Law Standard Setting in WIPO,
The WIPO Patent Agenda : Analysis Assessment and
Alternatives, The International Applications under the
PCT, The Main Development-related Concerns with the SPLT,
Integrating Development in IPR Standards Setting, WIPO
and UN Negotiation Rounds of Patent Lawyers, GATT
Negotiations to 1995 Bill, Patent Act, 1970 and TRIPs
Requirements, TRIPs Requirements and Time Frame, The
Gazette of India : Extraordinary Ministry of Industry.
Patent Laws of India : Application, Licensing and
Search
Patent : An Introduction, India's Patent Legislation
Salient Features, Patent Amendment Act, 1999, Patent
Second Amendment Bill, Procedure for Patent Application
in India, Patent Licensing, Patent Search.
Patent and Major Issues Facing Developed and
Developing Countries
Striking a Balance : Patent and Access to Drugs and
Health Care, WIPO's Contribution, Strategic Dimensions
of IPR Developed Context of Technology and Patenting
Life Forms, Third World Appeal Against Life Patents,
Monopolising Genes and Patent Royalties, Monopolising
Third World's Genes, Royalties for Patents May Cost,
Royalties for Patents May Cost Third World Billions of
Dollars Annually
E-Commerce, Internet and IPR
Electronic Commerce and Intellectual Property,
Governance System for E-Commerce, Electronic Commerce
and the Role of the WTO, Working of Internet System,
Physical Topology of the Internet, The Logical
Architecture of the Internet, Pricing and Quality of
Service, Future of the Internet, Main Instruments,
Economics and Significance of
E-Commerce of Internet.
Recommendations for a Patent System of the Future
Executive Summary, Introduction, European Patent
Regulations, The Patent System, The TRIPs Agreement, The
Patent Balance, Delimitations, Innovation Trends,
Remuneration, Innovation and Economic Growth -
Connections and Clashes, Patent and Competition,
Competition Law, Patents and Research, Recommendations,
Protection, Conditions of Patentability, Gene
Technology, Types of Patents, Information Technology,
Technical in Nature, Public Research Patents,
Recommendations, Protection Terms, Recommen-dations,
Protection Limitations, Compulsory Licenses, Licensing
Guidelines and Efficient Access to Licenses, Patent
Pools, Licenses of Right, Experimental Use,
Recommendations, The Protection System, Opposition and
Re-examination, Costs, Enforcement, More Flexible
Methods, Utility Model Rights, International
Harmonization, The Community Patent, PCT - The Patent
Cooperation Treaty, PLT - The Patent Law Treaty,
Recommendations, Conclusion : Challenges of a Patent
System for the Future, Interaction with other types of
Legislation, Amendments to the Protection System,
License Conditions and Access, Public Research, The
Patenting Process, International Harmonization, Enhanced
Knowledge, Bibliography.
Copyright and Neighbouring Rights
Issues, Law and Policy
Copyright : Philosophy and History, Theoretical
Approaches, Prehistory of Intellectual Property Rights,
Origins of Copyright, Copyright in Venice, History of
Copyright in UK, The Role of John Locke, First Modern
Copyright Law, Origins and Development of US Copyright
Law, Federalism & US Copyright Laws, Copyright Control
Mechanism : A Case Study, The VCR and the Control of
Copyright : Law of Intellectual Property, Critical Legal
Study and the Law of Copyright, The Court of Appeals
Decision in the Betamax Case, The 'Home Recording' Acts,
The Pursuit of Special Interests, The Supreme Court
Decision on Home Recording Rights, "Fixing" the Market
place.
Universal Copyright Regime : Education and Management
Systems
Text of 1952 Universal Copyright Convention,
Universal Copyright Convension as Revised at Paris, Text
of Revised Copyright Convention, Cumulative Index of
Copyright and related Rights Laws and Treaties,
Copyright and Databases, The Database Right,
Definitions, Duration, Infringement and Exceptions,
Presumptions, Other Provisions, Database Structure, The
WIPO Copyright Treaty, Preamble, Copyright Education,
Content of Copyright Education, Copyright Education :
Target Group, Funding or Conducting Copyright Education,
Some Cautionary Notes, Copyright Protection and
Management Systems, Copyright in an Electronic Age,
Public Access to the Intellectual, Cultural, and Social
Record in USA, Public Access is an Important Goal of
Copyright, Archiving of Digital Information, Presents
Difficulties, Fundamental Intellectual and Technical
Problems in Archiving, Intellectual Property and
Archiving of Digital Materials, Technical Protection
Services and Archiving.
Understanding Copyright in the Digital Environment
Introduction, The General Public, Rights Holders,
The Challenge of Private use and Fair use with Digital
Information, "Copy" : Whether Still an Appropriate
Fundamental Concept, Global and Indian Software Piracy,
Indian Scenario in Software Piracy, Four Case Studies in
E-Commerce, Legal Electronic Commerce, The Response from
Law Firms, Impediments to Legal E-Commerce, Bottom Lien
Reading, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Ways in Which
Cryptology and Security R&D Communities Work, Digital
Millennium Copyright Act, Ways in Which Cryptology and
Security R&D Communities Work, Copyright, Laws of
Confidence and Electronic Publishing.
Law of Copyrights in India : An Introduction
Musical Work, Other Work, Neighbouring Rights, Term
of Protection, Remedies and Infringement, Copyright
Infringement, Indian Copyright Law and Computer
Software.
Guide to the Administration of the Collective
Copyright
Preface, The Role of Collective Administration,
Introduction, Legislation, Exercise of Rights, Why
Collective Administration?, Role of Administration
Societies, Areas of Operation, Structure, Pluri-disciplinary
Approach, Licensing, Introduction, Tariffing Principles,
Tariff Structure, Negotiation, Administration Concerning
Users, Administration Concerning Users, Disputes,
Organization of Licensing, Documentation-Distribution,
Introduction, Right-holders, Contracts, Distribution
Sections, Information on the Repertoire Used,
Distribution Work, Computeri-sation, Administrative,
Legal and Financial Organisation, Internal Rules and
Regulations, Structure of the Society's Department,
Profile of the Staff, Accounting System, Management of
Costs.
General Information and Legal
Provisions on Trademarks
Global and Indian Legal Provisions on Trademarks,
What is a Trade Mark?, Unregistrable Marks, Rights and
Infringement, Exceptions to Infringement, Licensing of
Trade Marks, Registration of a Trade Mark, Passing Off,
Basic Requirements for a Passing-off Action, The
Misrepresentation, Common Fields of Activity, Internet
Domain Names, Remedies for Passing Off, Trade Label,
Global Legal Provisions : A Historical Perspective,
Trade Marks Act of India 1999, Trademarks and Developing
Countries, The Economics of Trademark Protection,
International Agreements on Trademarks, Laws and
Procedure in India, Correction and Amendment of
Application, The Economics of Trademarks Protection,
Classification Schedule Items of Non-Textile Goods
Trademakrs in India : An Introduction
Classification of Goods, Trademarks Becoming A
Generic Word, Remedies for Registered and Unregistered
Owners, Registration of Trademarks, Infringement of
Trademark in India, Jurisdiction of Trademark,
Infringement of Trademark, Groundless Threat Case Law,
Infringement of Trademark, Marks different-Get up same,
Overviews Infringement of Trademark, International
Reputation, Criminal Action, Criminal
Office-Jurisdiction, Action Pillar.
Trade Secrets, Integrated Circuits and Cyber Crimes
Trade Secrets, Integrated Circuits, IPR and Cyber
Crimes, Nature of Computer Crime, Internet Domain Name
Disputes : Role of IPR, Network Services and
Semiconductor Products, Certification Objective,
Creating a Network Security Policy, Leaks in Lans and
Wans : Major Sources, Cyberpsychology and Cyborgs, Cyber
and the Subjective, Computer Contracts.
Defective Hardware of Software : Liability Issues
Liability for Defective Hardware of Software,
Electronic Contracting, Legal Requirement as to Form,
Evidential Status of Electronic Documents in Civil
Trails, Contract Law for Writing Software, Licence
Agreement, Assignment of Agreement, The Contract Price,
Specification, Time for Completion, Maintenance of and
Enhancements to the Software, Copyright and other
Intellectual Property Rights, Warranties and
Indemnities, Liability, Arbitration, Alternative,
Dispute Resolution, Litigation, Other Terms, Independent
Professional Supervision, Contract between Software
Author and Publisher, Payment, Training, Maintenance and
Defects, Indemnity, Confidentiality, Liability, Internet
Service Providers and Defamation, Licence Agreements for
'Off-the-shelf' Software, Typical Terms in Licences for
Off-the-Shelf Software, Misrepresentation and Dealers'
Promises.
Knowledge Management E-Commerce and WTO
Establishing the Vocabulary, Three Models of
Knowledge Management, Issues Facing the Legal Knowledge
Management 'Champion', Cyber Crime in India, Technology
Tomorrow, E-Commerce and Proposed Legal Framework,
Proposal for a European Parliament and Council
Directive, General Provisions, Derogations, Advisory
Committee and Final Provisions, Digital Millennium
Copyright Act, Internet and the Security, Enemies
Identification, No Solution : Only Risk Management,
Technical Solutions, Technical Security Solutions,
Changing Role of the Lawyers in the Information Society,
Commoditisation of Legal Services, Disintermediation,
Interesting Times, Action Point, Appendix, Web
Technology, Three Phases of Computing, Web Browser as
The 'Universal Client', Technology 'Glue', http://www.What's
in a Name ? Future of HTML : XML, Software is Free on
the Internet, Future Developments, From a Passive Medium
to an Active One, Browsing the Web, Getting Started with
Email, Other Internet Services, Legal Web : What is out
there for the UK Lawyer ?, Unctral Model Law on
E-Commerce and Guide to its Enactment, Guide to
Enactment of the Uncitral Model Law on Electronic
Commerce (1996), Introduction to the Model Law.
Industrial Designs : Global Legal
Considerations
Introduction, Design Rights and Registration :
General Global Legal Considerations, Introduction and
Background, Registered Designs, The Design Right,
European Community Developments, Industrial Design
Protection, Protection of Designs, Novelty or
Originality.
Introduction to Law of Design in India
Introduction, Indian Designs Act, Term and Renewals,
Protection of Semi Conductor and Integrated Circuits,
Design Infringement and Indian Law, The Design Act,
2000, Introduction, Statement of Objects and Reasons,
Preliminary, Registration of Designs, Copyright in
Registered Designs, Industrial and International
Exhibitions, Legal Proceedings, General, Power and
Duties of Controller, Evidence, Agency, Powers etc., of
Central Government, Repeal and Savings, The Designs
Rules, 2001, Application for Registration, Making of
Articles, Inspections and Searches, Cancellation,
General Register of Designs, Certificates, Forward of
Cost by Controller, Miscellaneous Powers of Controller.
Geographical Indications and Indian Legal Regime
Geographical Indicators : Protection and Legal
Regime in India, Introduction, International Protection
of Geographical Indications, The Paris Convention for
the Protection of Industrial Property,.
Indian Geographical Indicators Act, 1999 and Rules,
2000
Geographical Indications of Goods, Preliminary, The
Register and Conditions for Registration, Procedure for
and Duration of Registration, Effect of Registration,
Special Provisions Relating to Trade Marks and Prior
Users, Rectification and Correction of the Register,
Appeals to the Appellate Board X, Offences, Penalties
and Procedure, Miscellaneous, The Geographical
Indications of Goods, Procedure for Registration of
Geographical Indications, Authorised User, Renewal of
Registration and Restoration, Rectification and
Correction of Register Alteration or Rectification of
Register, Special Provisions Relating to Trade Marks,
Procedure relating to Additional Protection to Certain
Goods under Section 22(2) of Geographical Indications of
Goods, Miscellaneous, Registration of Geographical
Indications Agent.
Global Intellectual Property Protection
Economic Crisis, Intellectual Property Protection,
Section 301 Cases, GSP Status, Antitrust Policy as a
Choice, Intellectual Property Rights in Agriculture
Sector : A Case Study, Ministry of Industry,
Notification regarding WTO/TRIPs, Changing levels of
Intellectual Property Protection under GATT, NAFTA and
the EU, Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in
NAFTA.
Overview of IPR Regime in India
Intellectual Property Rights : Backgrounder, India's
Proposal on WTO Issues, Pharma Firms 'Patents
Conscious', Introduction, Development of Intellectual
Property Law in India, Protection of Intellectual
Property in India, Trade Marks, Copyrights, Designs,
Geographical Indication, Technology : The Patent
Question, WTO and its Implications for India's National
Security.
IPR related other Covenants and National Acts
Biological Diversity Act, 2002, Statement of Objects
and Reasons, Preliminary, Regulation of Biological
Diversity, National Biodiversity Authority, Functions
and Powers of the National Biodiversity Authority,
Approvals by the National Biodiversity Authority, State
Biodiversity Board, Finance, Accounts and Audit of
National Biodiversity Authority, Finance, Accounts and
Audit of State Biodiversity Board, Duties of the Central
and the State Governments, Biodiversity Management
Committees, Local Biodiversity Fund, Miscellaneous,
Preliminary, Council of Architecture, Registration of
Architects, Miscellaneous, Preliminary, Establishment of
the Press Council, Powers and Functions of the Council,
Miscellaneous, Preliminary, Printing Presses and
Newspapers, Delivery of Books, Penalties, Registration
of Books, Registration of Newspapers, Miscellaneous,
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, Powers and
Functions of this Authority, Settlement of Disputes,
Finance, Accounts and Audit, Miscellaneous, The Indian
Telegraph Act, 1885, Privileges and Powers of the
Government, Powers to Place Telegraph Lines and Posts,
Penalties, Supplemental Provision, India's Banking Act,
Incorporation, Capital, Management and Business, Central
Banking Functions, Collection and Furnishing of Credit
Information, Prohibition of Acceptance of Deposits by
UN-incorporated Bodies, General Provisions, Penalties.
Laws for Computer Generated Works and Action against
Frauds, Hacking, Piracy and other Offences
Works Created Using a Computer, Works Created by a
Computer, Intermediate Works, Computer Fraud, Types of
Computer Fraud, Entry of Unauthorised Instruction (Input
Fraud), Alteration of Input Data (Data Fraud),
Suppression of Data (Output Fraud), Programme Frauds,
The Computer as an Unwitting Accomplice, Fraud Offences,
Obtaining by Deception, Obtaining a Money Transfer by
Deception, Conspiracy to Defraud, Attempts, Computer
Fraud as Theft, Authority and Consent, Other Offences,
Criminal Proceedings, Computer Evidence Hacking Illegal
Access, Main Provisions, Scope and Definitions, Security
and Confidentiality, Traffic and Billing Data,
Unsolicited Calls and Automatic Call Forwarding,
Directories, Other Provisions, Direct Marketing
Regulations, Hacking Illegal Access to Computer
Material, Good Afternoon, HRH Duke of Edinburgh, Other
Offences Associated with Hacking, Data Protection, Data
Subjects' Rights and Laws Against Piracy and other
Offences, Introduction and Background, Model of Data
Protection under the Directive, The Data Protection Act
1998, The Data Protection Principles, Definitions,
Application of the Act, The Tribunal and Appeals, Data
Subjects' Right, Right of Access, Right to Prevent
Processing likely to Cause Substantial Damage or
Substantial Distress, Right to Prevent Processing for
Purposes of Direct Marketing, Exempt Decisions,
Compensation, Rights in Relation to Inaccurate Data,
Jurisdiction and Procedure, Piracy and other Offences,
Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981, Trade Descriptions
Act 1968, Section 25 of the Theft Act 1968, Pornography,
Threatening Emails.
World Intellectual Property
Organization (WIPO) : An Overview
History of World Intellectual Property Organization,
Objectives of WIPO, Organs of WIPO, Membership of WIPO,
International Protection of Industrial Property,
International Protection of Copyright and Neighbouring
Rights, WIPO Arbitration Centre, Other Activities, The
International Bureau of WIPO, World Intellectual
Property Organization (WIPO) : An Overview, WIPO
Arbitration and Meditation Centre.
Globalization and Intellectual Property : An Overview
WTO-Trips, Microsoftism, Salient Features of WTO
Regime, Overview of Globalization and Institutional
Property, Is Intellectual Property Just ?, The Economics
of Intellectual Property, Alternatives to IP, How
Important is IP ? Optimal Length and Breadth of IP
Protection, Patent Pools, In Search of an Optimal Level
of R&D, IP and the Global Economy, International
Protection of Intellectual Property, Implications of
Lack of IP Protection in Poor Countries, Solving the
Problems of Poor Enforcement of IP, GATT/TRIP, Impact of
Trips, IP and Developing Countries, Patents, Price
Discrimination and Parallel Imports, Price
Discrimination, Preventing Parallel Import, AIDS in
Africa, Intellectual Property Rights in the Global
Economy, Summary, Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology.
WTO, TRIPs and IPR : An Introductory Overview
Trade related aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPs),
Sui Generis Systems : An Introduction, Protection of
Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights Act 2001, Protection
of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Act 2001, International
Standard Setting : WIPO and WTO, The World Intellectual
Property Organisation (WIPO), TRIPs Agreement, IP in
Bilateral and Regional Agreements, Participation by
Developing Countries, Role of Civil Society,
Understanding about IP and Development, WTO Legal Texts,
Business Guide to the World Trading System, Provisions
Providing for Exceptions, Business Implications, WTO
Ministerial Declarations.
Agreement on TRIPs
TRIPs : Text of the Agreement, Agreement on
Trade-related Aspects of IPR (TRIPs) Revisited,
Intellectual Property Protection, Focus on the
Protection of IPRs Holders, Proposal for Change,
Patenting of Plants and Animals, Preconditions for the
Dispute Settlement Process, Agreement on Implementation
of Article VI of GATT, Negotiating Rights for Small
Suppliers, Intellectual Property Rights and their
Implications for International Trade, Trade in
Counterfeit and Pirated Goods, Trademarks, Business
Implications, Trade-related Aspects of IPR (TRIPs).
IPR, Trade and Business : An Introductory Overview
The Future of Trips : Impact of the Doha,
Presentation, Large Economy Perspectives, Industry
Perspectives, Developing Country Government
Perspectives, Developing Country, Private Sector
Perspectives, Small Economy Perspectives, A Trade
Association at Work : Implications of IPR, Issues in
Multilateral Trading System, Drugs and Education
Services, Access of Essential Drugs in Low-Income
Countries and the Trips Agreement, Health and Education
Services Under GATS, Customer Rights and the
Multilateral Trading System, Trade in Services :
Progressive Developments at WTO, Current and Emerging
Issues Relating to Specific Intellectual Property Rights
for Business.
IPR, Innovational and Technology Transfer
Role of Intellectual Property in Building Capacity
for Innovation for Development, Developing World
Concerns, Revisiting the IPR Systems, IPR & Traditional
Medicine, IT, IPR and Innovation, Technology Transfer
and Intellectual Property : WTO, TRIPs and Developing
Countries, International Technology Transfer and
Economic Development, Channels for Diffusing
International Technology, Implementing the TRIPs
Agreement, Key Provisions of the TRIPs Agreement,
Economic Implications of IPRs, Dispute Settlement to
Date, Proposals and Prospects for Reform of the TRIPs
Agreement, Benefiting from Intellectual Property
Protection, Technology Transfer, Domestic Innovation,
Building Markets and Improving Quality, Complementary
Policies, Open Market Access, Facilitating Technology
Transfer, Proprietary Protection of Genetic Resources
and Traditional Knowledge, Subject Matter and its Value,
Public Policy Intervention, Proprietary Protection of
Traditional Knowledge and Genetic Resources, Options for
International Cooperation, How Much will the Effort be
Worth?, Cultural Industries and Intellectual Property
Rights, Music Industry, Crafts Industry, Ethnobotanicals,
Possible Issues for Multilateral Negotiations.
IPR, Digital Cultural Heritage and Digital Literacy
The Intellectual Property Rights Gateway for Digital
Cultural Heritage, IPR-Helpdesk Achieves the Following
Aims, Protection of Inventions, Accessible, Affordable
and Competitive Patent Protection for Europe, A
Community Patent System that is Affordable and Legally
Certain, Information and Control of Culture, Radical
Political Economy of Communications, Ownership and
Control of the Cultural Industries, Re-Discovering the
Capitalist Class, Ownership and Control of Media and
Copyrights, Legal Issues, Economic and Policy Issues,
Technical Issues, Research Agenda, Institutional and
Social Policy Context,.
IPR, Telecommunication and Cable
Transmission : Laws and Policies
IPR, Developing Countries and International Information
and Telecommunication, Institutions Governing ICTs,
Global Information Infrastructure Visions, Decade of
Talks on Trade and Governance, International Governance
for ICTs Least Developed Countries, Opening up, But
Keeping Control, Governance Regimes for Innovative 'Net
Worlds', Zones of Silence in the GIS, Balancing Social
and Economic Interests, Intellectual Property Rights in
'Digital' Information, Compulsory Licenses for Cable
Retransmissions : Related Property Laws, Historical
Background of the Cable Case, Efforts to Reform
Copyright Law, Compulsory License Proposal, The Supreme
Court's Ruling in Fortnightly, Intervention by the
Policy-Planning Network.
E-Commerce and Role of WTO : Major Challenges and
Dimensions
Policy Challenges in Electronic Commerce, The Legal
and Regulatory Framework for Internet Transactions,
Security and Privacy of Transactions, Seven Criteria to
Judge Proposals to Tax and Internet, Electronic Money,
Art and the Internet, The Internet in Developing
Countries, Electronic Commerce and the WTO, The General
Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), Access to the
Internet, Product Coverage under the Information
Technology Agreement, Trade Liberalization under GATS,
Trade Facilitation, Electronic Commerce and Public
Procurement, Intellectual Property Rights and the TRIPS
Agreement, The Trips Agreement, Online Communications
and the New WIPO Treaties, Regulatory Issues in the WTO,
Internet and E-Commerce, Definition of the Internet,
Network of Networks, Internet : Ownership and
Management, Key Internet Services, The World Wide Web,
Electronic Mail, Understanding Pull and Push, Scope and
Direction, Problems and Prospectus, Standards,
Information Overload, Political and Legal Issues, Law
Firm Web Site, Merits of Different Media, '3 CS' :
Content, Communi-cation and Community, Content,
Communication, Community, Office in Cyberspace,
Understanding the Medium, Understanding Branding on the
Internet, First-Generation Law Firm, Web Sites, The
Audience, Clients, Potential Employees, Applying The '3
CS', Interaction, Website Development Strategies,
Evolution of Big Bang, Marketing to an Audience of One,
An Example of Personalisation, Collaborative Filtering,
Rule-Based and Case-Based Personalisation, Outsource or
Design in-House, Choosing a Web Design Studio, Outsource
or In-House Hosting, Budgeting for Maintenance,
Publication Process, Human Resources Issues, Hiring the
Right Candidate, Remuneration of Web Managers, Keeping a
Webmaster Long-term, Measuring Success : User Logs,
Website Promotion, Publicity, Search Engines, Email and
Newsgroups, Advertising on the Internet, Action Points,
The Law Firm, Internet, Firm Requiring an Intranet,
Benefits to the Firm, Patterns on Intranet Development,
Phases of Intranet Development, Practical Development
Issues, Project Management Issues, Intranets and
Corporate Culture, Dealing with Individual Resistance to
Change, Need for a 'Killer App', Intranet Management :
Centralised V. Decentralised, Establishing the Intranet
Franchise, Evaluating the Benefits, Problems Associated
with Intranets, Scope and Direction of Intranets, Action
Points, Knowledge Management and Intranets, Case Study :
Xeroxe and A Lesson for Intranet Developers, Legal
Information Environment, Info-Bank / Brief-Bank
Solution, A One-Sided Debate.
Science and Technology Policy 2003
Preamble, Policy Objectives, Strategy and
Implementation Plan, Science and Technology Governance
and Investments, Optimal Utilization of Existing
Infrastructure and Competence, Strengthening of the
Infrastructure for Science and Technology, New Funding
Mechanisms for Basic Research, Human Resource
Development, Technology Development, Promotion of
Innovation, Industry and Scientific R&D, Indigenous
Resources and Traditional Knowledge, Technologies for
Mitigation and Management of Natural Hazards, Generation
and Management of Intellectual Property, Public
Awareness of Science and Technology, International
Science and Technology Cooperation, Fiscal Measures,
Monitoring, The New Vision.
Science, Technology and Innovation for the
Twentyfirst century
Connecting Science and Innovation, Adopting IPR
Regimes, Building a Highly skilled and Mobile Scientific
Workforce for the Future, International Cooperation in
Science and Technology, Access to Research Data,
Sustainable Development, Biotechnology, Global Science
Forum, High-Energy Physics, Neuroinformatics, Enhanced
Safety and Security, Service Economy, Areas for the
Further OECD Work, Science-Innovation Interface, Human
Resources in Science and Technology, Biotech-nology,
International Co-operation in Science and Technology,
Annex 1 : Declaration on Access to Research Data from
Public Funding, Annex 2 : Declaration of International
Science and Technology, Annex 3 : International
Co-operation on Large Accelerator-based Projects in
High-Energy Physics; Annex 4 : International
Co-operation in Neuro-informatics.
IPR, Innovation and Economic Performance
PROs and Fundamental Research, Biotechnology, IPR
for Software and Services, Impact of IPR on Invention,
Policy Implications, Annexure.
IPRs in Traditional
Ecological Knowledge
Introduction, Growing Status of Traditional
Knowledge, IPRs and the Rights of Traditional Knowledge
Holders, Can IPRs Protect Traditional
Biodiversity-related Knowledge, The Politics of IPRs and
Traditional Resource Rights in India, Community
Knowledge Documentation Projects, People's Biodiversity
Registers, SRISTI's Local Innovations Databases, The
Legal Status of Traditional Ecological Knowledge : TEK
and the Biodiversity Convention, TEK in the Public and
Private Domains, How can IPRS Protect Traditional
Knowledge?
IPR, Traditional Knowledge, Life Forms, Plants and
Patents
Rewarding Traditional Knowledge and Contem-porary
Grassroots Creativity, The Role of Intellectual Property
Protection, Nature of Traditional Knowledge,
Biodiversity, Poverty and Knowledge Erosion, Incentives
for Conservation and Value Addition, Role of
Intellectual Property Rights Regimes, Intellectual
Piracy and the Neem Tree, Plagiarism or Innovation,
Global Gene-Misers and High-Tech Bodysnatchers, Global
TRIPs, Collective Patents, Plants and Patents : The
Inter-relationship, The Policy Environment, Nurturing
Diversity, Diversifying Innovation, Dividing the Trade
Options, Policy : Changing International Framework,
Growing Importance of Plant Biodiversity, Agricultural
Biodiversity, Changing Role of Intellectual Property,
Place of Innovation, Human Context, Different
Viewpoints, Plants : New Framework for Biological
Diversity, Plant Genetic Erosion, National Conservation
Strategies, International Strategies, Convention on
Biological Diversity, Different Viewpoints, IP for
Farmers, People : Diversifying the Innovation, Community
Innovation, Application for Farmers' Rights, National
Innovation, Patents : Diversity Alternatives within the
Global Trading System, GATT and Agricultural
Biodiversity, Plant Option, UPOV Option, Sui Generis
Possibilities, Special Case of International Centres,
Different Viewpoints, Text of the Biodiversity
Convention, TRIPs - Trade related IP,
National-International Seed Enterprises, Patents on
Plants, Trade Secrets and Material Transfer Agreements,
Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional
Knowledge and Folklore, Many Issues, Much at Stake, The
Role of WIPO, Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers
Rights, Global Trends, Patents have their Advantages and
Disadvantages.
IPR, TRIPs and Biodiversity : Establishing
Relationship
Introduction, Intellectual Property Rights Framework
for Biodiversity Prospecting, Intellectual Property and
Public Policy, Guidelines for Applying Intellectual
Property Rights, Limitations on Patents, Intellectual
Property in a Framework of Laws, The Convention on
Biological Diversity's, Diversity's Effect on
Intellectual Property Law, Intellectual Property Rights
in the Context of Convention on Biological Diversity,
TRIPs and the Biodiversity Convention, Forest Resources,
Trade and Sustainable Development, Links between the
Timber Trade and Deforestation, The Proximate and the
Underlying Causes of Deforestation, Trade and
Desertification, Desertification and Poverty, Impact of
World Trade on Desertification, Trade in Agricultural
Commodities, Transactional Corporations in Mining,
Forestry and Tourism, WTO and Desertification, Is
Integration Possible?, Biodiversity, IPR, TRIPs, Food
and Trade Understanding Linkages, Regulating Access to
Genetic Resources, Recognizing the Symbiosis between
Genetic Resources and Indigenous Knowledge, Protection
of Plant Varieties, Managing the Benefits Derived from
the use of Biodiversity, Biodiversity-related Aspects of
the Global Intellectual Property Rights Regime, The
TRIPs Agreement, Main Contents of the Agreement on
Trade-related Aspects, Patents, Geographical
Indications, Trade Secrets, Trademarks, Other Provisions
relating to Agriculture, The UPOV Convention, The
Biodiversity Convention and TRIPs, TRIPs vs. CBD, Who is
the WTO Anyway, TRIPs, Agriculture and the Implications
for Food Security, IPR-related Aspects of the Convention
on Biological Diversity, Trade, Intellectual Property,
Food and Biodiversity, Intellectual Property Food and
Farming, The Concept of Intellectual Property, Patents,
IPRs in Developing Countries, IPRs and Competition, The
TRIPs Agreement and Article, Patents on Lifeforms, The
Patent Option, The Sui Generis System Option, UPOV, What
is Protected, i.e. define "Plant Variety", UPOV and PRBs
- A Critique, The Combination Option, Fiscal, Legal and
Market Implications, Issues for the Review of Article,
The Convention on Biological Diversity - CBD, The
Developed Countries' Positions, The Developing
Countries' Positions, National Policy Coherence, An
Indian view of the Provisions, Legal Interpretations and
Dispute Settlement, Geographical Indications, Gene
Banks, The Wider Issues - Ethical, Economic,
Environmental and Social, Official Development
Assistance, Stakeholder Consultants, TRIPs Article 27 :
Patentable Subject Matter, Biodiversity out of TRIPs,
Five-Year Suspension of Article, Resisting the
Strengthening of TRIPs, Apolitical Appeals for the
Primacy of CBD over TRIPs, IPRs and Biodiversity,
Perspectives on Links between Patents and the CBD's,
Links between IPRs and Conservation and Sustainable use
of Biodiversity, IPRs and Transfer of Technologies
Relevant to Conservation and Sustainable use of
Biodiversity, IPRs and the Rights of Traditional
Knowledge Holders.
Identifying Gaps between CBD and TRIPs and Bridging
them
TRIPs and CBD : Widening Gulf, the Convention on
Biological Diversity, WTO-TRIPs Intellectual Property
Regime, India's Response to the Emerging Regime,
Certificates of Origin, Different Sui Generis
Approaches, Options for the Sui Generis System,
Geographical Indications, Trade Secrets, Trademarks,
Initiatives Proposals, Recommendations, Government and
Regional Initiatives, Andean Community Common System on
Access to Genetic Resources, The Costa Rica Biodiversity
Law, Non-Governmental Initiatives and Proposals,
Community Intellectual Rights, SRISTI's Local
Innovations Databases, People's Biodiversity Registers,
Conclusions, Recommendations.
Music : Intellectual Property's Canary in the Digital
Mine
Music : Intellectual Property's Canary in the
Digital Coal Mine, Why Music ?, Whiter the Market?, What
can be Done, Makee the Content Easier and Cheaper to buy
than to Steal, Use Digital Content to Promote the
Traditional Product, Give Away (Some) Digital Content,
Technical Protection Response, Mark the Bits, A
Scenario, Constraints on Technological Solutions,
Industry Consequences of the New Technology, The Broader
Lessons, National Academy Press.
Model Case Law on Patent
Model Australian Case Law on Patent, Development of
Software Patenting in the USA, Other Model US Case Laws
on Patent, Indian Case Laws on Patent, Case 1 : M/s.
Bishwant Prasad Radhey Shyam KM/S Hindustan Metal
Industries, Case 2 : Raj Prakash V. Mangat Ram Choudhary
and other, Case 3 : Press Metal Corporation Ltd., V.
Noshir Sorabji Pochkhanawalla, Case 4 : Atlantic
Thermoplastics Co., Vacated-in-Part, Affirmed-in-Part
and Remanded., United States Court of Appeals for the
Federal Circuit.
Model Indian and American Case Law on Copyright
Copyright of Databases, Hon'ble Mr. R.C. Lahoti, J.,
Feist Publication, Inc v. Rural Telephone Service
Company, Inc.
Model Case Law on Trademark and Trade Secrets
Model us Case Law on Trademarks, Appealed from :
Trademark Trial & Appeal Board, Qualitex Company,
Petitioner v. Joacobson Products Company, Inc., Model us
Case Law on Trade Secrets, Posner, Circuit Judge,
Reserved and Remanded, Goldberg, Circuit Judge,
Restatement of Torts.
WTO Dispute Settlement Legal Procedure
The WTO Dispute Settlement Procedures A Collection
of the Legal Texts, Abbreviations, Table of Contents,
Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the
Settlement of Disputes, Transitional Co-Existing of the
GATT 1947 and the WTO Agreement, Transitional
Arrangements, Committee on Anti-Dumping Practices,
Agreement on Government Procurement, Agreement on Trade
in Civil Aircraft, International Dairy Agreement,
Resolutions of Trade conflicts under the WTO's Dispute
Settlement System, Dispute Settlement : A Heavy
Case-Load for the System, The WTO Dispute Settlement
System, The Review of the WTO Dispute Settlement
Understanding, World Trade Organization (WTO) : An
Overview, 10 Common Misunderstanding about the WTO.
