Prashant Reddy T. and Sumathi Chandrashekaran
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- March 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780199470662
- eISBN:
- 9780199088850
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199470662.003.0002
- Subject:
- Law, Intellectual Property, IT, and Media Law
The Patents Act, 1970 and its virtual abolition of a pharmaceutical patent regime did not go unchallenged by the innovator pharmaceutical industry of the developed world. Starting in the mid-1980s, ...
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The Patents Act, 1970 and its virtual abolition of a pharmaceutical patent regime did not go unchallenged by the innovator pharmaceutical industry of the developed world. Starting in the mid-1980s, the United States (US) spearheaded an effort to link trade in goods with trade in intellectual property under the aegis of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Although India initially resisted even discussing the issue, it capitulated in Geneva in April 1989 in what came to be known as the famous ‘Geneva Surrender’. Once negotiations began, the USt cajoled India to agree to Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and a pharmaceutical patent regime. Joining the WTO and becoming a signatory to TRIPS required India to reinstate a pharmaceutical patent regime in exchange for greater trading benefits in other sectors, like textiles. This chapter recounts the diplomatic negotiations and national politics that led to India agreeing to TRIPS.Less
The Patents Act, 1970 and its virtual abolition of a pharmaceutical patent regime did not go unchallenged by the innovator pharmaceutical industry of the developed world. Starting in the mid-1980s, the United States (US) spearheaded an effort to link trade in goods with trade in intellectual property under the aegis of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Although India initially resisted even discussing the issue, it capitulated in Geneva in April 1989 in what came to be known as the famous ‘Geneva Surrender’. Once negotiations began, the USt cajoled India to agree to Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and a pharmaceutical patent regime. Joining the WTO and becoming a signatory to TRIPS required India to reinstate a pharmaceutical patent regime in exchange for greater trading benefits in other sectors, like textiles. This chapter recounts the diplomatic negotiations and national politics that led to India agreeing to TRIPS.
Kenneth C. Shadlen
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- August 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780199593903
- eISBN:
- 9780191845574
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780199593903.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Economy
This chapter introduces the broad changes in the global politics of intellectual property that marked the late 1900s and early 2000s, and a coalitional argument for understanding cross-national and ...
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This chapter introduces the broad changes in the global politics of intellectual property that marked the late 1900s and early 2000s, and a coalitional argument for understanding cross-national and longitudinal diversity in response to the new external environment. The chapter situates the book’s analysis in the context of broader scholarship in comparative and international political economy, highlighting the importance of coalitions for understanding national forms of compliance to global changes. The chapter reviews scholarship on the politics of intellectual property, with an eye toward integrating international and domestic drivers of national policies. The chapter concludes with discussion of the logic of case selection, the method of data collection and comparative analysis, and the organization of the remainder of the book.Less
This chapter introduces the broad changes in the global politics of intellectual property that marked the late 1900s and early 2000s, and a coalitional argument for understanding cross-national and longitudinal diversity in response to the new external environment. The chapter situates the book’s analysis in the context of broader scholarship in comparative and international political economy, highlighting the importance of coalitions for understanding national forms of compliance to global changes. The chapter reviews scholarship on the politics of intellectual property, with an eye toward integrating international and domestic drivers of national policies. The chapter concludes with discussion of the logic of case selection, the method of data collection and comparative analysis, and the organization of the remainder of the book.
