• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


• PREFACE


• CHAPTER 1


• CORRELATION BETWEEN PATENTS and DEVELOPMENT: LESSONS FROM HISTORY


• CHAPTER 2


• THE UNEQUALS: NATIONAL REALITIES and PATENT REGIMES OF THE DEVELOPING WORLD


• CHAPTER 3


• THE INTERNATONAL TRADE REGIME IN PERSPECTIVE


• CHAPTER 4


• THE POOR NATIONS HARMONIZE


• CHAPTER 5


• THE MISSING PIECE OF THE TRIPS PUZZLE: PROCEDURAL MECHANISMS


• CHAPTER 6


• TRIPS PATENT REGIME: THE POVERTY PENALTY


• CHAPTER 7


• IS A SUBSTANTIVE REGIME ADEQUATE TO GENERATE FULL COMPLIANCE? THE BIOTECHNOLOGY DEBATE


• Chapter 8


• Dying to Dine -The Story of the Great Agricultural Barrier


• CHAPTER 9


• The Debate on Plant Variety Protection


• Chapter 10


• Harvesting Poverty: The PBR Story in a Subsidy Plot


• CHAPTER 11


• Biodiversity: The Third but Ignored Paradigm of the Trade Regime


• CHAPTER 12


• Can the Trade Regime Lead to Sustainable Development?


• INDEX

Srividhya Ragavan is Professor of Law at the University of Oklahoma, College of Law with a focus on intellectual property, trade, and development. Her scholarship analyzes the interplay between international trade law and intellectual property, with an emphasis on issues that affect developing nations from embracing the trade regime. Professor Ragavan's publications have touched on diverse topics including: traditional knowledge, pharmaceutical patenting, and agricultural subsidies. Previously, she was a Texas Instruments Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Advanced Study & Research on Intellectual Property, University of Washington, Seattle.

In Patent and Trade Disparities in Developing Countries, Srividhya Ragavan examines the interaction between trade and intellectual property regimes (using the patent regime in India as the focal point) in an integrated developmental framework to determine how sustainable economic growth can be achieved in developing countries.