Contents
Foreword...
Preface
Acknowledgement
Preferred way of reading the book...........
Freedom for Me........
2. The Panoply of Socio-Economic Rights in India.....
Peroration
The Making of the Constitution - Human Rights Perspective.....
Socio-Economic Rights - Mentioned in the Constitution...
Intellectual Property Regime in India
Socio-Economic Rights and Intellectual Property Regime.
3. Right to Health in the Intellectual Property Era............
Prologue.
Anecdote....
Right to Health
Judiciary and Right to Health....
Right to Health in the Novartis Era..........
Fathoming the Unfathomable "Public order" in the Patent Act....
Bounden Duty of Courts...............
Subjection of Socio-Economic
Epilogue.....
4. Right to Food in the Indian Intellectual Property Regime......
Prologue...
Need of Intellectual Property in Agriculture ............
Legal Journey of Right to Food in India
Patent Rights and the Right to Food
Copyright, Confidentiality and the Right to Food.....
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Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights Act, 2001
and the Right to Food..........
Light at the End of the Tunnel.................'
5. Right to Environment and Development in the Intellectual
Property
Overture.....
Prelude.......
Right to Environment in India.......
Right to Development vis-d-vis Right to Environment............
InGllectual Properfy Laws and the Balance betwixt Right to
Development and Right to Environment.......'......
Transfer of Green TechnologY
Denouement..................
6. I Got Deceived by the Use of a Deceptive Trade Mark'
What Shall I Do? Search for My Remedy Under the
Indian Trade Marks Act,
Prologue.....
Introduction
Purpose of trade mark protection .....'......
Standing of the trade mark owner in cases of infringement/
passing off ... .. ..... .. .
Consumer interest in trade mark litigation ..'.'......'..
Trade mark not as a property in true sense...'......
Consumer standing and the Trade mark Act,1999
Consumer standing and the Consumer ProtectionAct, 1986""'
Conclusion.
7. The Legal Position and Existing Jurisprudence on Use of
Surnames in Respect of Good/Services Under Indian Law..........
8.
Prologue.....
Surname as a Trade mark in India.'....'.'..'....
The Subject of Acquired Distinctiveness .'...
Epilogue.....
Judiciat Protraction as an Impediment for the Realization of
Intellectual Property Rights: India's Quest to Find an
Appropriate Redressal Mechanism
Prelude.......
Intellectual Property as a Limited Right..........'
Alternate Dispute Resolution
Light at the End of the Tunnel.....................'....
Patent Law and Alternate Dispute Resolution..
Copyright and Alternate Dispute Resolution. ".
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Trade mark and Alternate Dispute Resolution ..
Trade Secret and Alternate Dispute Resolution.
Denouement..................
9. CompulsorY Licensing - Pharmaceutical Patents....
Prologue.....
Right to Health as a Fundamental Right
Patent Rights vis-ir-vis Right to Health
Compulsory Licensing vis-ir-vis Right tu Health.
Epilogue.....
10. Right to Information and its Conflict with the Indian
Intellectual ProPertY Laws
Prologue.....
International Recognition of Right to Information.........'........''
Article 19(lXa) of the Constitution of lndia and its Tryst with
Right to Information
Right to Information Act, 2005 and the Impugned Provisions.
Epilogue.....
11. Disabled and their Quest for Rights in the Intellectual
Property
Prologue.....
Clash of Titans..............
Article 21 of the Indian Constitution as the Saving Beacon
Article 19(lXa) and Right of People to Know
Thread ofArticle l5 and 16 of the Indian Constitution '......
How, What and Where the Feat can be Traced
Percussion of Article 1 4 ...............
Epilogue.....
12. Moral Rights of Authors as a Human Right
Prologue.....
Article 21 of the Indian Constitution
Moral Rights in Copyright Law .................
Moral Rights under EquitY
Seeking Justiflcation for the Moral Rights.
Denouement..................
13.
Table of Cases ........
Books and Articles
lndex .........