TICFA and Intellectual Property Rights : Implications and Challenges for Subsistence Needs in Bangladesh

This paper exclusively deals with intellectual property rights (IPRs) landscape of the TICFA. It relies on secondary sources and raises questions what the probable consequences the TICFA might bring in the area of intellectual property rights; how the TICFA might affect public health, food security and agro-biodiversity of Bangladesh; whether the TICFA might impact on the Doha Round privileges for Bangladesh in the area of IPRs; whether the TICFA bears any TRIPS-Plus obligation on its face; how the TICFA might affect the regime reform agenda of Bangladesh in the field of IPRs; how the TICFA might affect policy space of Bangladesh in IPRs