International seminar on India and the New Global IPR Regime : Challenges, opportunities and options (2-4 August 2006) (Mahatma Gandhi University Kottayam, 2006)
Keywords: Research and development -- Traditional culture -- Global IPR -- Economic management -- Scope of patentability under the Indian patents act, protection of traditional cultural expressions, patent system, implication of new patent regime in developing countries, IPR and development economics, Indian patents act- implications for public health, generic drug manufacture and R&D, research and development in Hong Kong, IPR and developing countries- Philippine experience with plant variety protection act, intellectual property rights and its implications for development, humanitarian clauses in US tech transfer licenses and India's role in worldwide generics industry -- Intellectual property rights- challenges and opportunities for studies strategic cooperation in science and technology, intellectual property rights and their implications for Indian economy, patenting of life forms- impact on peoples health, stimulating production of biodiversity- based drugs while ensuring an equitable sharing of benefits flowing therby, TRIPS to Trips pulse, patents on life forms and farmers rights , WTO agreements and agriculture in India, problems and prospects of genetically modified crops in India, strategic economic management - IPR, UNCBD and agricultural sector, property rights to intellectual property rights, IPR and small scale enterprises in Tamil Nadu -- TRIPS and politics of inclusion, third dimension to protection of traditional knowledge, livelihoods of tribal people in Andhra Pradesh, biodiversity and intellectual property right, impact of new global IPR regime on traditional knowledge and bio-diversity of developing countries, IPR and R&D, global IPR regime, human rights and right to development, universal patent regime, changing nature of TRIPS- WTO's fair deal, TRIPS and developing countries, How Kerala is using intellectual property to become India's premier tourism destination