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Comment: Intellectual Property Rights and free world trade.

  • UPSC 1996
  • 20 marks
  • Evolution of the International Economic System

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Intellectual property rights (patents, copyright, trademarks, designs, geographical indications, trade secrets) are state-granted, time-bound monopolies over knowledge. Free trade is the removal of barriers to exchange. The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), in force with the WTO from 1 January 1995, fused the two, and the fusion is paradoxical: a free-trade…

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  • Why IPR entered the trade system
  • What TRIPS requires
  • The tension with free trade
  • India's response: flexibility inside the treaty
  • Evaluation
  • Conclusion
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