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By Amit Kapoor and Sankalp Sharma NEW DELHI: India's intellectual property (IP) regime has witnessed steady progress ever since the country became a signatory to the TRIPS agreement of the World Trade Organization, which entered into force in 1995. Post this, many laws have been amended/passed in India to support the process of ...

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) released its 2016 Special 301 Report today, which assesses intellectual property (IP) rights protection in markets around the world and identifies particular countries for follow-up action. Given the continued and widespread barriers that many industries in the United States face under India’s ...

The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) recently released its 2016 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers (NTE), which includes a detailed analysis of the current trade and investment relationship between India and the United States. The report highlighted many of the concerns detailed by USTR in October, ...

LINDA DEMPSEY AND PATRICK KILBRIDE   |   APRIL 6, 2016 Leaders from more than 50 nations, including India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, gathered in Washington, D.C., last week to discuss strengthening nuclear security and cooperation at the fourth annual Nuclear Security Summit. These discussions are important for both the U.S. ...

The signature economic policies of the Modi government in India – including ‘Make in India’ and efforts to keep tech startups at home – have provided plenty of opportunity for leaders to publicly acknowledge the importance of intellectual property to the country’s development. Patent protection remains a hot-button issue, but it has been ...

By: Ryan Ong, Director for International Business Policy at the National Association of Manufacturers India just entered its “budget season” with a flurry of reports on the Indian economy and fiscal priorities for the coming year. While these rosy reports contain positive rhetoric about India’s economic and commercial environment, global ...

India continues to sit on the sidelines of international intellectual property laws March 4, 2016 By: David Torstensson The biggest piece of international news of 2015 arguably was the signing and publication of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). An ambitious trade deal, the TPP covers close to 40% of world GDP and, while not perfect, ...

Despite encouraging dialogue between President Obama and Prime Minister Modi as well as other high-level officials over the past 18 months, numerous concerns and issues with India’s intellectual property rights (IPR) remain. Today, the Alliance for Fair Trade with India (AFTI), along with several of its members, testified before the Special 301 ...

By: Ryan Ong, Director for International Business Policy at the National Association of Manufacturers United States Trade Representative Michael Froman announced today that a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement panel had found that localization rules under India’s national solar energy policy violated WTO international trade ...

February 15, 2016 Kalpana Reddy Prime Minister Modi has succeeded in putting India back on the world economic map and as the global economy is witnessing lingering slowdown, India has been one of the few countries to emerge relatively unscathed. Eliminating the license raj, combatting corruption, making investments in infrastructure ...