Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures
- Boxes
- Contributors
- Preface
- Editorial Note
- 1 Introduction: Towards a Fresh Contribution to a Critical Policy Dialogue
- Part I Setting the Scene: Evolution of Key Principles and International Dialogue
- Part II Sharpening the Focus: Sectoral Perspectives
- Part III Deepening the Dialogue: Comparative and Jurisdictional Analyses
- Part IV Drawing the Lessons: Towards International Policy Coherence
- Index
24 - Competition Policy and Intellectual Property Rights: A Perspective from Pakistan
from Part III - Deepening the Dialogue: Comparative and Jurisdictional Analyses
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 June 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures
- Boxes
- Contributors
- Preface
- Editorial Note
- 1 Introduction: Towards a Fresh Contribution to a Critical Policy Dialogue
- Part I Setting the Scene: Evolution of Key Principles and International Dialogue
- Part II Sharpening the Focus: Sectoral Perspectives
- Part III Deepening the Dialogue: Comparative and Jurisdictional Analyses
- Part IV Drawing the Lessons: Towards International Policy Coherence
- Index
Summary
Pakistan’s intellectual property (IP) law traces its origin back to the British Indian Penal Code of 1860, which had provisions dealing with the protection of trademarks. Half a century later, the Patent and Designs Act of 1911 and the Copyright Act of 1914 were promulgated. The first comprehensive Trade Marks Act was enacted in 1940. After Pakistan’s independence from the Great Britain in August 1947, the country inherited the legal framework prevalent at that time in the Indian sub-continent. Pakistan enacted its first competition law in 1970, the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Ordinance (MRTPO),1 whose objective was to diffuse the economic power concentrated in the hands of the few.2
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