Book Review Symposium on "IP Debates in South Asia:Law, Development and Practice" Part 1

We had an open- for-all Book Review Symposium on "Intellectual Property Debates in South Asia: Law, Development and Practice (Bloomsbury, 2025)". Edited by Dr. Pratyush Nath Upreti, the book is one of the first solid cohesive attempt to look at IP narratives from South Asia. The book was dedicated towards Prof. (Dr.) Shamnad Basheer. Swaraj Barooah is the Senior Expert at SpicyIP, and an IP Policy Consultant. He has a chapter in this book: "Intellectual Property and Social Justice: Remembering the Contributions of Prof Shamnad Basheer". You can find the pre print version of this chapter here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...Praharsh Gour, Editor and Researcher at SpicyIP, discusses the different parts of the book with the panellists Shama Mahajan, Akshat Agrawal, and Prof. Ishupal Singh Kang. This is Part 1 of the symposium where the three panellists review the three parts of the book. The QnA and discussion will be uploaded separately as Part 2. You can also directly view the live session here: https://youtube.com/live/5HT4XRCgeVk?...Shama Mahajan is an LLM candidate at NUS Singapore. She reviews Part 1 of the book "IP History and Development". Akshat Agrawal: Founder and Counsel at AASA Chambers. He reviews Part 2 of the book "Developments in South Asia".Ishupal Singh Kang: Associate Professor at Jindal Global Law School. He reviews Part 3 of the book "Institutions, Courts and Practices".===================================Visit SpicyIP.com for the latest insights on the Indian IP ecosystemConnect with us on our socials: https://x.com/spicyip / spicyip / spicyipblog / @spicyiptv ===================================00:00- Introduction02:42- A Dedication to Prof. (Dr.) Shamnad Basheer 13:07- Introduction to the speakers 14:20 - Title of the book17:53 - Review of Part 1: "IP History and Development"35:03 - Review of Part 2 : "Developments in South Asia"52:35 - Review of Part 3: "Institutions, Courts and Practice"Reading materials:1. Shamnad Basheer,India's Tryst with Trips: The Patents (Amendment) Act 2005, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...2. Kung Chung Liu, IP Laws and Major Asian Economies3. The Geographical Indication Hurdles That We Need to Talk About: ft Niharika Salar, Niharika Salar, SpicyIP TV, Let's IPsa Loquitur (Youtube),    • The Geographical Indication Hurdles That W...  4. Lateef Mtima & Steven D. Jamar, A Social Justice Perspective on Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.c...5. Kean Birch and Fabian Muniesa, Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism, https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edite...6.Victor Roy, Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines, https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.5...7. Shamnad Basheer, Obsessing on Newness: The Death of Patents?https://spicyip.com/2018/01/obsessing...8. Ntina Tzouvala , On Tariffs and the Ends of International Economic Law, https://lpeproject.org/blog/on-tariff...9. Amaka Vanni , Patent Games in the Global South:Pharmaceutical Patent Law-Making in Brazil, India and Nigeria10. Rosana Pinheiro-Machado, Counterfeit Itineraries in the Global South: The human consequences of piracy in China and Brazil11. Jessica M. Silbey, Against Progress: Intellectual Property and Fundamental Values in the Internet Age12. Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan, Is IP Good for Our Planet? 13. Ruth L. Okediji , The International Relations of Intellectual Property”, https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/jil...