Intellectual Property Rights in the NAM and Other Developing Countries : A Compendium on Laws and Policies

Contents: Foreword. Introduction. 1. Trade related Intellectual Property Rights in Bangladesh/Khaliquzzaman. 2. Status of intellectual property in Cameroon/Mbah David Akuro. 3. Status of intellectual property in Chile/Eleazar Bravo. 4. Intellectual Property Rights and the expected changes in the light of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and Status Report for the Egyptian Patent Office/Fattouh Abdel Gelil Hamed. 5. Intellectual Property Rights in Egypt/Mohamed Swellam. 6. Management of Intellectual Property Rights in India/R. Saha. 7. Kyrghyz Patent, state agency on Science and Intellectual Property in Kyrgyzstan. 8. Development of the Intellectual Property Protection System in Lebanon/Souheir Nadde. 9. The status of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and TRIPS and related problems for Malawi/Frade K. Nyondo. 10. The status of Intellectual Property Rights in Malaysia/Heng Jee Heng. 11. Intellectual Property System of Mongolia. 12. Intellectual Property Rights and existing legal provision in Nepal/R.M.S. Malla. 13. Intellectual Property Rights and trade related Intellectual Property Systems in Nepal/Fanindra Prasad Neupan. 14. Development and present status of copyright and related rights in Pakistan/Syed Ali Tallae. 15. Development of the Intellectual Property Protection System in Pakistan/S.T.K. Naim. 16. Intellectual Property Rights in Saint Lucia/Kimberly Cenac-Phulgence. 17. The status of Intellectual Property Rights in Tanzania/Y.M. Kohi. 18. Intellectual Property Rights in Trinidad and Tobago/Richard Aching. 19. State policy and legislation on intellectual property in Ukraine/Constantine V. Subbotin. 20. Zambian report on the new IPR regime under the TRIPS for developing countries/Joseph Simbaya. 21. The current status of intellectual property laws and how they relate to TRIPS and other international undertakings/J.M. Gopo.

"The publication entitled Compendium on Laws and Policies on IPR for NAM and Other Developing Countries brought out by the Center for Science and Technology of the Non-Aligned and other developing countries (NAM S&T Centre) is largely based on the presentations made during an international conference on "Implications of New IPR Regime under the TRIPS for Developing Countries" held at New Delhi, India during May 1999.

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) is the protection of research results in a knowledge-based industry prior to its public distribution. The extent of protection and enforcement of these rights vary widely around the developing countries. It is extremely difficult to generalize the implications of the TRIPS agreement in these countries because such implications vary with differences existing between the IPR laws of a particular country and the standards of the agreement, the extent of development in different sectors, the per capita income, and the structure of the supply. These differences become a source of tension in international trade and economic relations. The new internationally agreed IPR regimes under TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of IPR) provide a way to introduce more order and predictability in trade and for disputes to be settled more systematically. The volume contains contributions from renowned experts from various developing countries. It illustrates well the relevant laws and policies existing in the participant countries, including Bangladesh, Cameroon, Chile, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Malawi, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Saint Lucia, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Ukraine, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

    The book would be useful to IPR professionals and S&T persons as a reference material on various IPR related issues with particular reference to the developing countries." (jacket)