Do Patents Matter
An overview of patents by Indian in USPTO till Aug 2001, MDP on Harnessing Intellectual Property for Strategic Competitive Advantage, April 8-10, 2002, IIMA Download
Making IPR regime responsive to the needs of small, scattered and disadvantaged innovators and traditional knowledge holders
Agenda for Policy and Institutional Change, presented at the Workshop on Traditional Knowledge in London on 24th Jan 2002 organised by Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, UK (http://www.iprcommission.org/meetingsSubs.asp?primary=20) Download
Is All TK A Prior Art?
How to make IPR regime responsive to the needs of small, scattered and disadvantaged innovators and traditional knowledge holders: Honey Bee experience, presented at the Conference on International Patent System in Geneva during March 25-27, 2002 Download
Role of Intellectual property Rights in the Benefit Sharing Arrangements
The Case of Bio-resources Development and Conservation Programme in Nigeria, W.P.No.2002-08-03, August 2002 – A case study based on the data collected from Nigeria Download
Value addition to local Kani tribal knowledge
patenting, licensing and benefit sharing, W.P.No.2002-08-02, August 2002, A case study based on the data collected from Kani tribe, Kerala, India. Download
Gene Patents and the Genetic Resource Recognition Fund
Sharing benefits from use of plant genetic resources by agro-biotechnological inventions and traditional agricultural practices, W.P.No.2002-08-01, August 2002, A case study based on the data collected from Mali. Download
(With Riya Sinha) Contested Domains, Fragmented Spaces
rights, responsibilities and rewards for conserving biodiversity and associated knowledge systems, Presented at International Conference of MAB UNESCO on Biosphere Reserve, IFRI. Dehradun, 22-25, Feb 2001, published in Traditional Ecological Knowledge for Managing Biosphere Reserves in South and Central Asia (Eds., P.S.Ramakrishnan, R.K.Rai, R.P.S.Katwal and S.Mehndiratta), Delhi, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., 2002,…
Value chain augmentation for grassroots innovations
Value chain augmentation for grassroots innovations making India innovative, note submitted to Finance Minister at the pre budget consultation meeting, January 9, 2002 Download
Why is Media so Apathetic? Published in VIDURA
Journal of The Press Institute of India, New Delhi, Vol. 40, Issue No. 2 (2003), p. 8-10 Download
Sharing Benefits with the Conservators of Diversity
Use of Agricultural Biodiversity: A Source Book, CIP-UPWARD, Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines, Vol. 3, p. 608 – 613, March 2003 Download