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<strong style="font-size: 1.17em; line-height: 1.5em;">Patents</strong>
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<a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=13104">
<span style="color: #993300;">The Patents Act, <span>1970</span> (as last amended by Patents (Amendment) Act, <span style="color: #000000;">2005</span></span>
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<a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=13104"><span style="color: #993300;">) </span>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7622"><span style="color: #993300;">Patents (Amendment) Act, <span style="color: #000000;">1999</span></span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7620"><span style="color: #993300;">Patents (Amendment) Act, <span style="color: #000000;">2002</span></span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=2407"><span style="color: #993300;">Patents (Amendment) Act, <span style="color: #000000;">2005</span> (Act No. <span style="color: #000000;">15 of 2005</span>)</span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7619"><span style="color: #993300;">Patent (Amendment) Rules, <span style="color: #000000;">2006</span></span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=2406"><span style="color: #993300;">Patents (Amendment) Rules, <span style="color: #000000;">2005</span></span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=13234"><span style="color: #993300;">The Patents Rules, <span style="color: #000000;">2003</span> (as amended up to Patents (Amendment) Rules, <span style="color: #000000;">2012</span>)</span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=13246"><span style="color: #993300;">Patents (Amendment) Rules, <span style="color: #000000;">2013</span></span></a></li>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="text-align: justify;"> Copyrights</strong></p>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=2396"><span style="color: #993300;">Copyright Act, <span style="color: #000000;">1957</span></span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=2391"><span style="color: #993300;">Copyright (Amendment) Act, <span style="color: #000000;">1994</span></span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=2395"><span style="color: #993300;">Copyright (Amendment) Act, <span style="color: #000000;">1999</span> (Act No.<span style="color: #000000;"> 49 of 1999</span>)</span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=13230"><span style="color: #993300;">The Copyright (Amendment) Act, <span style="color: #000000;">2012</span></span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7635"><span style="color: #993300;">Copyright Rules, <span style="color: #000000;">1958</span></span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://rachanafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Copy-Right-Rules-20131.pdf"><span style="color: #993300;">Copyright Rules <span style="color: #000000;">2013</span></span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7636"><span style="color: #993300;">The International Copyright Order,<span style="color: #000000;"> 1999</span></span></a></li>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="text-align: justify;"> Trademarks</strong></p>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=2400"><span style="color: #993300;">The Trade Marks Act, <span style="color: #000000;">1999</span></span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=13240"><span style="color: #993300;">The Trade Marks (Amendment) Act, <span style="color: #000000;">2010</span></span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=2402"><span style="color: #993300;">Trade Marks Rules,<span style="color: #000000;"> 2002</span></span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=13245"><span style="color: #993300;">Trade Marks (Amendment) Rules, <span style="color: #000000;">2010</span></span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #993300;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=13244"><span style="color: #993300;">Trade Marks (Second Amendment) Rules</span></a></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=13244"><span style="color: #993300;">,</span></a></span></span><span style="color: #993300;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=13244"><span style="color: #000000;"> 2010</span></a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><a style="color: #993300; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=13241"><span style="color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;">Gazette Notification of Trade Marks (Amendment) Rules</span></a></span><a style="text-align: justify; color: #993300; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=13241"><span style="color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;">,</span></a><a style="color: #993300; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=13241"><span style="color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;"> 201</span></a>3</span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #993300;"> </span></span><span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">a</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=13241"><span style="color: #800000;">nd Trade Marks (Amendment) Act</span></a></span></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=13241"><span style="color: #993300;">,</span></a></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=13241"><span style="color: #000000;"> 2010</span></a></span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=13243"><span style="color: #993300;">Trade Marks (Amendment) Rules,</span></a><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=13243"><span style="color: #000000;"> 2013</span></a></span></li>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="text-align: justify;">Industrial Designs</strong></p>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=2398"><span style="color: #993300;">The Designs Act, <span style="color: #000000;">2000</span></span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7634"><span style="color: #993300;">Designs (Amendment) Rules,<span style="color: #000000;"> 2008</span></span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7565"><span style="color: #993300;">The Designs Rules, <span style="color: #000000;">2001</span></span></a></li>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="text-align: justify;">Geographical Indications</strong></p>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=2399"><span style="color: #993300;">The Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, <span style="color: #000000;">1999</span></span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #993300;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=2404"><span style="color: #993300;">The Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection)</span></a> <a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=2404"><span style="color: #993300;">Rules,</span></a></span><span style="color: #993300;"> </span><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=2404"><span style="color: #000000;"><span>2002</span></span></a></span></li>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Protection of Plant Varieties</strong></p>
<ul style="text-align: justify; list-style: inherit;">
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=2401"><span style="color: #993300;">Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Act, <span style="color: #000000;">2001</span></span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7638"><span style="color: #993300;">Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmer’s Rights Rules,<span style="color: #000000;"> 2003</span></span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7639"><span style="color: #993300;">Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Regulations, <span style="color: #000000;">2006</span></span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7646"><span style="color: #993300;">Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights (Second Amendment)</span></a> <a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7646"><span style="color: #993300;">Rules, <span style="color: #000000;"> <span>2009</span></span></span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em; color: #993300;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=13532"><span style="color: #993300;">Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights (3rd Amendment)Rules,</span></a></span><span style="color: #993300;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=13532"> <span> <span style="color: #000000;">200</span></span></a><span style="color: #000000;">9</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7640"><span style="color: #993300;">Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights (Criteria for DUS for Registration) </span></a></span><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7640"><span style="color: #993300;">R</span></a><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7640"><span style="color: #993300;">egulations, <span style="color: #000000;">2009</span></span></a></li>
</ul><br>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="text-align: justify;">Semi Conductors Integrated Circuits Layout Designs</strong></p>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=2392"><span style="color: #993300;">The Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, <span style="color: #000000;">2000</span></span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=2403"><span style="color: #993300;">Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Rules, <span style="color: #000000;">2001</span></span></a></li>
</ul><br>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Intellectual Property-related Laws: enacted by the Indian Legislature </b></p>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7625"><span style="color: #993300;">The Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995</span></a>(2002)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7627"><span style="color: #993300;">Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Amendment Act,<span style="color: #000000;"> 2000</span></span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7628"><span style="color: #993300;">Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Amendment Act, <span style="color: #000000;">2002</span></span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7647"><span style="color: #993300;">The Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Amendment Act, <span style="color: #000000;">2007</span></span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=13628"><span style="color: #993300;">The Cable Television Networks Rules <span>1994</span> (as amended up to <span><span style="color: #000000;">Feb 27, 2009</span>)</span></span></a><span style="color: #000000;"> </span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7631"><span style="color: #993300;"> </span></a></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7631"><span style="color: #993300;">Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, </span></a></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7631"><span style="color: #000000;">1997</span></a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7632"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #993300;">The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Amendment) Ordinance</span>,</span></a></span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7632"><span style="color: #000000;"> 2000</span></a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=8527"><span style="color: #993300;">Direction of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India</span></a><span style="color: #000000;"> (2008)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #993300;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7630"><span style="color: #993300;">The Indian Wireless Telegraph Act,</span></a></span><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7630"><span style="color: #000000;"> 1933</span></a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=6827"><span style="color: #993300;">The Information Technology Act</span></a></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=6827"><span style="color: #993300;">, <span>2000</span></span></a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7633"><span style="color: #993300;">Information Technology (Certifying Authorities) Rules,</span></a><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7633"><span style="color: #000000;"> 2000</span></a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em; text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7643"><span style="color: #993300;">The Seeds Act</span> <span style="color: #000000;">1966</span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #993300;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7645"><span style="color: #993300;">The Seeds (Amendment) Act,</span></a></span><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7645"><span style="color: #000000;"> 1972</span></a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em; text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=6058"><span style="color: #993300;">Biological Diversity Act,</span><span style="color: #000000;"> 2002</span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7641"><span style="color: #993300;">Biological Diversity Rules,</span></a><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7641"><span style="color: #000000;"> 2004</span></a></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em; text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=6526"><span style="color: #993300;">The Drugs and Cosmetics Rules</span>, <span style="color: #000000;">1945</span> <span><span style="color: #993300;">(as corrected up to</span> <span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #993300;">November</span> 30, 2004</span><span style="color: #993300;">)</span></span></a></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=6521"><span style="color: #993300;">Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940</span></a><span style="color: #000000;"> (1995)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7626"><span style="color: #993300;">The Cinematograph Act, <span>1952</span></span></a><span style="color: #000000;"> (1984)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=8578"><span style="color: #993300;">The Code of Criminal Procedure, <span>1973</span></span></a><span style="color: #000000;"> (2006)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7667"><span style="color: #993300;">The Code of Civil Procedure, <span>1908</span></span></a><span style="color: #000000;"> (1980)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><a style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7668"><span style="color: #993300;">The Indian Penal Code</span></a><span style="color: #000000;">(1860)</span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=8581"><span style="color: #993300;">The Arbitration And Conciliation Act</span></a></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=8581"><span style="color: #993300;">,</span> <span style="color: #000000;">1996</span></a></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.5em; color: #993300;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=13616"><span style="color: #993300;">Consumer Protection Act,</span></a></span><span style="color: #993300;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=13616"><span style="color: #000000;"> 1986</span> </a></span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=13616"><span style="color: #993300;">(as amended up to the Consumer Protection (Amendment) Act</span>,</a><span style="color: #993300;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=13616"> <span style="color: #000000;">2002</span></a></span><span style="color: #993300;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=13616"><span style="color: #993300;">)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=13619"><span style="color: #993300;">The Consumer Protection Rules</span></a></span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=13619"><span style="color: #993300;">, <span style="color: #000000;">1987</span> (as amended up to<span> October <span style="color: #000000;">13, 2006</span>)</span></span></a></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7666"><span style="color: #993300;">The Customs Act</span></a></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7666"><span style="color: #993300;">, <span style="color: #000000;">1962</span></span></a></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.5em; color: #993300;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7649"><span style="color: #993300;">Circular on Implementing the Intellectual Property Rights (Imported Goods) Enforcement Rules</span></a></span><span style="text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7649">,</a></span><span style="color: #000000;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7649"><span style="color: #000000;"> 2007</span></a></span></li>
<li><a style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=8167"><span style="color: #993300;">Intellectual Property Rights (Imported Goods) Enforcement Rules,<span style="color: #000000;"> 2007</span></span></a></li>
</ul><br>
<p><b>Intellectual Property Legal Literature</b></p>
<ul style="list-style: inherit;">
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7566"><span style="color: #993300;">Information Booklet for Applicants for Registration of Designs, © Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks</span></a> <span>(2010)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #993300;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7648"><span style="color: #993300;">Manual of Patent Office Practice and Procedure, 2010, © Office of the Controller General of Patents</span></a><span style="color: #993300;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7648">,</a> </span></span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7648"><span style="color: #993300;">Designs & Trade Marks</span></a><span> (2010)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=7642"><span style="color: #993300;">Intellectual Property Rights Policy for Kerala 2008, © Law Department, Government of Kerala</span></a><span> (2008)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=8594"><span style="color: #993300;">A Handbook of Copyright Law, © Government of India Ministry of Human Resource Development</span></a><span>(1999)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://rachanafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Manual-of-Geographical-Indications-Practice-and-Procedure.pdf"><span style="color: #993300;">Manual of Geographical Indications Practice and Procedure</span></a><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-299" style="color: #993300; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.5em;" alt="icon_pdf" src="http://rachanafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/icon_pdf2.gif" width="16" height="16" /></li>
</ul>
<p><b> <span style="color: #000000;"> </span></b><span style="color: #000000;"><b><a href="http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/summary.jsp"><span style="color: #000000;">Treaties Membership Administered by WIPO, plus UPOV, WTO & UN</span></a></b></span><b><span style="color: #000000;"> </span> </b></p><br>
<p><b></b><b> India is signatory to following treaties.</b></p>
<ul style="list-style: inherit;">
<li style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/wipo_treaties/details.jsp?treaty_id=17"><span style="color: #993300;">Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organization</span></a><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/wipo_treaties/details.jsp?treaty_id=17"><span style="color: #993300;">s</span></a><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/wipo_treaties/details.jsp?treaty_id=17"><span style="color: #000000;">(May 18, 1964</span></a>)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/wipo_treaties/details.jsp?treaty_id=29"><span style="color: #993300;">Washington Treaty on Intellectual Property in Respect of Integrated Circuits</span></a> <span>(May 26, 1989 )</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/wipo_treaties/details.jsp?treaty_id=8"><span style="color: #993300;">Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks</span></a> <span>(July 8, 2013)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/wipo_treaties/details.jsp?treaty_id=7"><span style="color: #993300;">Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Micro-organisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure</span></a> <span>(December 17, 2001)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/wipo_treaties/details.jsp?treaty_id=2"><span style="color: #993300;">Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property</span></a><span style="color: #000000;">(December 7, 1998)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/wipo_treaties/details.jsp?treaty_id=6"><span style="color: #993300;">Patent Cooperation Treaty</span></a><span style="color: #000000;">(December 7, 1998)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/wipo_treaties/details.jsp?treaty_id=22"><span style="color: #993300;">Nairobi Treaty on the Protection of the Olympic Symbol</span></a><span style="color: #000000;">(October 19, 1983)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #993300;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/wipo_treaties/details.jsp?treaty_id=1"><span style="color: #993300;">Convention Establishing World Intellectual Property Organization</span></a> </span><span style="color: #993300;"><span>(</span><span>May 1, 1975)</span></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/wipo_treaties/details.jsp?treaty_id=18"><span style="color: #993300;">Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms Against Unauthorized Duplication of Their Phonograms</span></a> <span>(February 12, 1975)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/wipo_treaties/details.jsp?treaty_id=15"><span style="color: #993300;">Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works</span></a> (<span>April 1,1928)</span></li>
</ul><br>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">India is signatory to following Intellectual Property-related </b><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">Mu</b><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">ltilateral T</b><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">reaties </b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="line-height: 1.5em;"> (Entry into force of the Treaty for the Contracting Party)</b></p>
<ul style="list-style: inherit;">
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=287"><span style="color: #993300;">Multilateral Convention for the Avoidance of Double Taxation of Copyright Royalties</span></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em; color: #993300;"> </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">(December 13, 1979)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em; color: #993300;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=395"><span style="color: #993300;">Nagoya – Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Bio Safety</span></a></span><span style="color: #993300;"> </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">(October 15, 2010)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=311"><span style="color: #993300;">Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization to the Convention on Biological Diversity</span></a><span style="color: #993300; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">(October 29, 2010)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=259"><span style="color: #993300;">United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property</span></a><span style="color: #993300; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">(December 2, 2004 )</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=258"><span style="color: #993300;">Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities</span></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">(May 3, 2008)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=285"><span style="color: #993300;">Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions 2005</span></a>(March 18, 2007)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=301"><span style="color: #993300;">Agreement for the establishment of the Global Crop Diversity Trust</span></a>(January 9, 2007)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=385"><span style="color: #993300;">Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage</span></a>(April 20, 2006)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=265"><span style="color: #993300;">Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants</span></a>(April 13, 2006)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=276"><span style="color: #993300;">International Plant Protection Convention</span></a> (October 2, 2005)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=275"><span style="color: #993300;">WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control</span></a>(February 27, 2005)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=278"><span style="color: #993300;">Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change</span></a>(February 16, 2005)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=255"><span style="color: #993300;">International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture</span></a>(June 29, 2004)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=256"><span style="color: #993300;">Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity</span></a>(September 11, 2003)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=291"><span style="color: #993300;">United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea</span></a>(July 29, 1995)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=201"><span style="color: #993300;">Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization (WTO)</span></a>(January 1, 1995)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=231"><span style="color: #993300;">World Trade Organization (WTO) – Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement) (1994)</span></a> (January 1, 1995)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=254"><span style="color: #993300;">Convention on Biological Diversity</span></a>(May 19, 1994)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=268"><span style="color: #993300;">United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change</span></a> (March 21, 1994)</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #993300;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=206"><span style="color: #993300;">Protocol 1 annexed for Universal Copyright Convention as revised at Paris on 24 July 1971 concerning the</span></a></span><span style="color: #993300;"> </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=206"><span style="color: #993300;">application of that Convention to works of Stateless persons and refugees</span></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">(April 7, 1988)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=207"><span style="color: #993300;">Protocol 2 annexed for Universal Copyright Convention as revised at Paris on 24 July 1971 concerning the application of that Convention to works of certain international organizations</span></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">(April 7, 1988)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=205"><span style="color: #993300;">Universal Copyright Convention as revised on 24 July 1971, with Appendix Declaration relating to Article XVII and Resolution concerning Article XI</span></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">(April 7, 1988)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=380"><span style="color: #993300;">International Covenant on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights </span></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">(Jul 10, 1979)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=289"><span style="color: #993300;">Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage</span></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">(February 14, 1978)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=386"><span style="color: #993300;">Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property</span></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">(April 24, 1977)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=382"><span style="color: #993300;">Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict</span></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">(September 16, 1958)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=383"><span style="color: #993300;">Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict</span></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">(September 16, 1958)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=209"><span style="color: #993300;">Protocol 1 annexed to the Universal Copyright Convention as signed at Geneva on 6 September 1952 concerning the application of that Convention to works of stateless persons and refugees</span></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">(January 21, 1958)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=210"><span style="color: #993300;">Protocol 2 annexed to the Universal Copyright Convention as signed at Geneva on 6 September 1952 concerning the application of that Convention the works of certain international organizations</span></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">(January 21, 1958)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=208"><span style="color: #993300;">Universal Copyright Convention of 6 September 1952, with Appendix Declaration relating to Article XVII and Resolution concerning Article XI</span></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> (January 21, 1958)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=211"><span style="color: #993300;">Protocol 3 annexed to the Universal Copyright Convention as signed at Geneva on 6 September 1952 concerning the effective date of instruments of ratification or acceptance of or accession to that Convention</span></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">(October 21, 1957)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=277"><span style="color: #993300;">Convention (I) for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field</span></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">(May 9, 1951)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=279"><span style="color: #993300;">Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea</span></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">(May 9, 1951)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=280"><span style="color: #993300;">Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War</span></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">(May 9, 1951)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=22&treaty_id=304"><span style="color: #993300;">Convention and Statute on Freedom of Transit</span></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">(October 31, 1922)</span></li>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span><b>Regional Economic Integration Treaties entered by India </b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span><b>(Entry into force of the</b></span><span><b> Treaty for con</b></span><span><b><b>tracting</b> Party)</b></span></p>
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<li><a style="font-size: 1em; text-align: justify; line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=24&treaty_id=224"><span style="color: #993300;">Agreement on South Asian Free Trade Area </span></a>(January 1, 2006)</li>
<li><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=24&treaty_id=225"><span style="color: #993300;">Framework Agreement on the BIMST-EC Free Trade Area and its Protocol and the Declaration establishing the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation</span></a> (February 8, 2004)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=24&treaty_id=432"><span style="color: #993300;">Global System of Trade Preferences among Developing Countries</span></a><span style="color: #993300;">(</span>Apr 19,1989)</li>
<li><span style="color: #993300;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=24&treaty_id=223"><span style="color: #993300;">Charter of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation </span></a></span><span style="color: #993300;">(</span>Dec 8, 1985)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=24&treaty_id=373"><span style="color: #993300;">First Agreement on Trade Negotiations among Developing Member Countries of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (Bangkok Agreement)</span></a></li>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>IP-related Bilateral Treaties India entered in to </b></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><b>(Entry into force of the Treaty for the Contracting Party)</b></p>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=23&treaty_id=412"><span style="color: #993300;">Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement between Japan and the Republic of India</span></a> <span> Feb 16, 2011</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=23&treaty_id=242"><span style="color: #993300;">Memorandum of Understanding between Switzerland and India</span></a> <span>(Aug 7, 2007)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=23&treaty_id=532"><span style="color: #993300;">Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement between the Government of the Republic of India and the Government of Malaysia</span></a> <span>(July 1, 2011)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=23&treaty_id=539"><span style="color: #993300;">Agreement on Trade in Goods under the Framework Agreement on Comprehensive Economic Cooperation between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the Republic of India</span></a> <span>(January 1, 2010)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=23&treaty_id=535"><span style="color: #993300;">Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement between the Republic of Korea and the Republic of India</span></a><span style="color: #000000;">(January 1, 2010)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=23&treaty_id=540"><span style="color: #993300;">Protocol to Amend the Framework Agreement on Comprehensive Economic Cooperation between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the Republic of India</span></a> <span>(January 1, 2010)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=23&treaty_id=536"><span style="color: #993300;">Revised Treaty of Trade between the Government of India and the Government of Nepal</span></a><span style="color: #000000;">(October 27, 2009)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=23&treaty_id=537"><span style="color: #993300;">Preferential Trade Agreement between the MERCOSUR and the Republic of India</span></a> <span>(January 1, 2009)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=23&treaty_id=923"><span style="color: #993300;">Agreement between the Government of the Republic of India and the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago for the Promotion and Protection of Investments</span></a> <span>(October 7, 2007)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=23&treaty_id=483"><span style="color: #993300;">Preferential Trade Agreement between the Republic of Chile and the Republic of India</span></a><span style="color: #000000;">(September 11, 2007)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=23&treaty_id=476"><span style="color: #993300;">Agreement on Trade, Commerce and Transit between the Government of the Republic of India and the Royal Government of Bhutan</span></a> <span>(July 29, 2006)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=23&treaty_id=533"><span style="color: #993300;">Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement between the Republic of India and the Republic of Singapore</span></a> <span>(August 1, 2005)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=23&treaty_id=538"><span style="color: #993300;">Framework Agreement on Comprehensive Economic Cooperation between the Republic of India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations</span></a><span style="color: #000000;"> (July 1, 2004)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=23&treaty_id=531"><span style="color: #993300;">Preferential Trade Agreement between the Republic of India and the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan</span></a><span> (May 13, 2003)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a style="text-align: justify;" href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=23&treaty_id=534"><span style="color: #993300;">Free Trade Agreement between India and Sri Lanka</span></a><span style="color: #000000;"> (December 15, 2001)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=23&treaty_id=849"><span style="color: #993300;">Agreement between the Government of the State of Qatar and the Government of the Republic of India on the Reciprocal Promotion and Protection of Investments</span></a> <span>(December 15, 1999)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=23&treaty_id=865"><span style="color: #993300;">Agreement between the Government of the Republic of India and the Government of the State of Israel for the Reciprocal Promotion and Protection of Investments</span></a> <span>(February 18, 1997)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/other_treaties/details.jsp?group_id=23&treaty_id=904"><span style="color: #993300;">Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of India for the Promotion and Mutual Protection of Investments</span></a> <span>(August 5, 1996)</span></li>
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