ABSTRACT
This chapter sets out to look at the two most populous nations with widely different approach to IP laws and regimes: India and China. It ventures to first provide a deeper understanding of the macro underpinnings of India and China. It then examines four industries in India and China which either best represent their respective strength or manifest contrasts, or opportunities for cooperation and synergy – IT, film, automobile and pharmaceutical industries – in order to answer the following questions: why has a certain industry has flourished in one country and failed in the other, and more importantly what role have IP regimes and laws played? Is it causal, facilitating, crippling, co-relational or simply irrelevant? What can India and China learn from each other?
