Advocate in Uttar Pradesh, India
“People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property”. - Michael Nesmith
Trade is one of the factors that connect two distant places of the world. No single country can declare unilaterally that it is self-sufficient in all its needs. If India needs technology, the US needs affordable IT human resource that runs their IT engines.
Considering these things in mind, India and EU sought to enter into a Free Trade Agreement (FTA), called Broad-Based Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreement (BTIA) since 2007. However, there are certain hurdles in the finalisation of this instrument. Certain provisions of this instrument have been criticised as being TRIPS-plus provisions.
The author seeks to study and investigate to what extent such provisions are against interest of India and the relevant provisions of the draft BTIA that are criticised to be TRIPS-plus arrangements.
Research Paper
International Journal of Law Management and Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 3, Page 4488 - 4501
DOI: https://doij.org/10.10000/IJLMH.111033This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution -NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits remixing, adapting, and building upon the work for non-commercial use, provided the original work is properly cited.
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