Submissions made to the USTR on robustness of India’s IP regime

Last month we reported that the US Trade Representative had decided to conduct an ‘Out of Cycle Review’ (OCR) to unilaterally grade India’s IPR Regime. The Indian government immediately retorted that it would not cooperate with the US in this unilateral process! One hopes that other like minded governments will come forward soon and collectively condemn the unilateral 301 process as one that goes against the very spirit of the WTO framework. Meanwhile the Office of United States Trade Representative...