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The Unseen Arsenal: IPRs as a Weapon in Armed Conflicts

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Title The Unseen Arsenal: IPRs as a Weapon in Armed Conflicts
 
Creator Upadhyay, Niteesh Kumar
Upadhyay, Ankita
 
Subject IP War
IP Waiver
IP in Armed Conflict
Sanctions
Patent War
 
Description 88-95
Armed conflict is inevitable most of the time between two high-contracting parties. The world has seen two world wars
that killed millions of humans and injured many more. Armed conflict in the last few decades has seen a surge of new means
and methods of warfare. Various nations are investing money in developing their war preparedness and devising new ways
of combating it. It is not uncommon for countries to take advantage of armed conflicts to gain an advantage in various areas,
including intellectual property (IP) rights. The world had never imagined that intellectual property rights could be used as an
economic weapon during the war and as a countermeasure to economic sanctions and other soft law mechanisms for the
implementation of international law. Intellectual property piracy has become a new method of economic sanctions, and
many high-contracting parties to the armed conflict are using it during war or will use it in future armed conflicts. The
present paper will discuss three major dimensions of IPR and armed conflicts, ie., (i) the role of intellectual property rights
during armed conflict; (ii) how countries can use intellectual property rights to impose economic sanctions; and (iii) how
intellectual property rights can be used as countermeasures to economic sanctions imposed on any state by other states.
 
Date 2024-04-04T11:06:55Z
2024-04-04T11:06:55Z
2024-04
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1076 (Online); 0971-7544 (Print)
http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/63697
https://doi.org/10.56042/jipr.v29i2.2655
 
Language en
 
Publisher NIScPR-CSIR,India
 
Source JIPR Vol.29(2) [March 2024]