LLM Group 3 Law of Intellectual Property and Information Technology Intellectual Property and International Organisations and Agreements Solved Question Papers with Answers 2015 to 2026 - Mumbai University | munotes

Eight files in this folder hold NINE distinct printed papers and fifty six questions, and all fifty six are answered here. The 2015 scan carries two complete hundred mark papers, QP Code 12198 and QP Code 12306 marked Revised Course, and the 2018 scan carries two more, the paper on printer's form 60137 and Q.P. Code 33677, while the 2019 file is byte for byte the 2018 scan, so the same thirteen answers are served at both addresses. The 2016 file is QP Code 11763, and the four newest files are single papers printed in English and then in Marathi. That is how sixty nine answers come to stand against fifty six questions.

Three things carry this subject. WIPO is the subject of a full question on eight of the nine papers, missing only from the 2015 Revised Course paper; the WTO, through its history, its rounds, its functions, its norms for developing countries or its dispute settlement, is set on the same eight; and TRIPS has a full question of its own on eight papers, while on the ninth, QP 12198, it appears as a note on the Agreement's transitional and institutional arrangements. On seven of the nine papers those three topics alone offer at least three full questions.

The papers changed character after 2018. Four of the five papers of 2015 to 2018 dwell on the trading system: norms for developing countries, the objectives of GATT, the Uruguay Round, accession to the WTO and dispute settlement. The fifth, QP 12306 of 2015, marked Revised Course, is unlike any other paper in the folder, with questions on TRIPS and Indian pharmaceutical companies, copyright infringement, electronic contracts and layout-designs. The four papers from 2023 ask instead about intellectual property as a whole: its concept, nature and types, its value as an economic asset, its relationship with the public interest, which is a full question on the 2023, 2024 and 2024-25 papers, and, in 2025-26, the challenges new technology poses to it, with notes on traditional knowledge, plant varieties and the Rome Convention. A candidate who prepares only from the older papers will be short on the questions now being set.

Four full questions are printed word for word, or nearly so, on more than one paper, and each carries the identical answer here: the objects, functions and organs of WIPO with the manner of acquiring membership, on the 2016 paper and QP 33677 and in almost the same words on QP 12198; the norms for developing countries and the multilateral agreements of GATT and the WTO, printed twice inside the 2018 scan, once on each of its papers; the same five notes, on the WTO and economic policy making, the objectives of GATT, copyright treaties, the Patent Cooperation Treaty and abuse of rights, on the 2016 paper and QP 33677; and the international and national law on integrated circuits and layout-designs, on QP 12306 and the 2024 paper. Notes repeat more often and keep the same text wherever they are printed: the Madrid Agreement and abuse of intellectual property three times each; human rights, biological diversity and remedies for infringement twice each; and four items, on the international character of intellectual property, its acquisition and maintenance, government use and the transitional and institutional arrangements of TRIPS, are set on both QP 12198 and form 60137. The 2025-26 paper repeats nothing except its note on remedies.

Beware the questions that LOOK repeated and are not. The 2016 paper sets three questions that QP 33677 also sets, but changes each one: it adds the international character of intellectual property to the norms for developing countries, adds commercial exploitation to the international agreements, and drops the international character from the question on enforcement under TRIPS. Form 60137 asks for the transitional and institutional arrangements of TRIPS both as a full question and as a note, and the Uruguay Round is a note on that paper but a question on its history and socio-legal implications on QP 33677. Each of these is answered to its own question, with its own structure.

The shape of the paper settled only in 2023. QP 12198, QP 12306 and the 2016 paper set FIVE questions, QP 33677 sets SIX, and form 60137 SEVEN, because it numbers two different questions Q.3.; every paper since 2023 sets SEVEN. Every paper is three hours, a hundred marks and any four questions, so each answer is worth twenty five, but only the 2024, 2024-25 and 2025-26 papers print the figure. Every paper sets a question of short notes, and the rubric has moved from any three of five on the papers of 2015 to 2018 to any two of three from 2023 and any two of four in 2025-26; QP 12198 also sets a second notes question requiring all three of its notes.

Every paper asks for case law, and the answers are built on the authorities this subject actually turns on: the WTO disputes, among them India, Patents on the mailbox, the Bananas dispute on retaliation, United States, Shrimp on the WTO's objectives and China, Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights under the interim appeal arrangement; Indian decisions such as Novartis AG v. Union of India on section 3(d), Gramophone Company of India v. Birendra Bahadur Pandey on treaties in Indian law, N.R. Dongre v. Whirlpool Corporation on trans-border reputation and Divya Pharmacy v. Union of India on benefit sharing; and the founding texts themselves, the WIPO Convention of 1967, the Agreement Establishing the WTO and TRIPS.

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