Research Associate

Yogesh A. Pai, Consortium for Trade and Development (CENTAD), India

Mr. Pai, an Indian national, is an associate fellow at the Consortium for Trade and Development (CENTAD), in New Delhi, India, and a guest faculty member in International and Indian Copyright Law, at the Indian Law Institute, in New Delhi. He is a PhD candidate at the Cochin University of Science and Technology, in Cochin-Kerala where he is writing on issues concerning intellectual property, trade and competition law. In 2008, Mr. Pai worked as a Programme Assistant and then as a consultant to the Innovation and Access to Knowledge Programme of the South Centre, in Geneva, Switzerland. Mr. Pai has published in the area of intellectual property, including a conference proceeding paper Fair Dealing of Computer Programs in India: Working through the Interoperability Fair Play in the MHRD National Symposium on Limitations and Exceptions under Copyright Law (2009) edited by Prof. (Dr.) N S Gopalakrishnan; and a book chapter “The Changing Geography of Innovation Activities: What do Patent Indicators Imply?” in Confronting the Challenge of Technology for Development: Experiences from the BRICS, edited by Dr. Luc Soete and Dr. Xiaolan Fu, University of Oxford, 2009. He is the author of “Patent Protection for Computer Programs in India: Need for a Coherent Approach”, published in the Journal of World Intellectual Property, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 315-364, September 2006, and “Copyright Protection for Computer Programs: Walking on One Leg?”, Journal of the Indian Law Institute, Vol. 48, No. 3, pp.359-399, July-September 2006.

Mr. Pai holds a Masters of Law (LL.M) with specialization in Intellectual Property Laws from the School of Legal Studies in the Cochin University of Science and Technology, in Cochin, India. He also holds a Bachelors of Law and a Bachelors degree of Commerce from colleges affiliated to Karnataka University, Dharwar, India. 

His research interests include intellectual property law and its development dimension, innovation policy and access to knowledge and medicines, and trade and competition law - legal, economic and policy determinants.