Srividhya Ragavan

Professor of Law
BA. LLB (Honors), National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India, 1994
LL.M, King's College, University of London, 1995
S.J.D, George Washington University, 2007

• Email: sragavan@ou.edu
• Phone: 405-325-4790
• Link: Course Syllabi and Handouts
• Link: Conferences and Presentations

Srividhya Ragavan’s scholarship focuses on the interplay between international trade law and intellectual property issues with a developmental perspective. Her work emphasizes issues that affect developing nations from embracing the trade regime. Her publications have expounded diverse topics like traditional knowledge, pharmaceutical patenting and agricultural subsidies.

Ragavan’s work has been recognized abroad, particularly in India. Ragavan served as a visiting faculty with the NALSAR’s University’s IP-PRO program and authored the course modules that are still being used by the students at NALSAR. Ragavan has also been closely associated with the NLSIU which is the top ranked University in India. In 2010, Ragavan served as a blogger for LiveMint, which is one of India’s leading newspapers. Ragavan has served as an Adjunct Fellow with the Research Information System for Developing Countries which is based out of New Delhi. Ragavan has also been associated with the various departments of different Government the Ministry of Human Resource Development as well as Science and Technology during her tenure at the NLSIU in Bangalore.

At the University of Oklahoma, Ragavan has taught patent law, intellectual property law, trademarks law, international intellectual property seminar and the law of contracts. Ragavan has been nominated twice by the law school for the University’s research award. In 2008, Ragavan was awarded the Student’s Access to Justice (SATJ) Association Certificate for Distinguished Pro Bono Service. Ragavan was instrumental in establishing Memorandums of Understanding between the University of Oklahoma with NLSIU and NALSAR in India. In 2011, Ragavan secured the Fulbright Nehru CORE Teaching Grant to work in India where she has been associated with the NLSIU and has also made numerous presentations on the importance of IP law as a Fulbright Fellow. She is currently in India completing her Fulbright tenure.

Ragavan graduated with a BA. LLB (Honors) from the National Law School of India University in Bangalore where was a holder of the University merit-certificate. Further, Ragavan received the Overseas Development Agency Shared Scholarship Scheme (ODASS Scholarship) administered by the Administration of Commonwealth Universities to pursue her LL.M from King's College, University of London. Later, Ragavan completed her SJD from the George Washington University Law School. Ragavan was the First Texas Instruments Visiting Scholar at the Center for Advanced Study & Research on Intellectual Property at the University of Washington at Seattle.

Prior to joining the University of Oklahoma, Ragavan served as a faculty at the National Law School of India University in Bangalore. Before pursuing her teaching interests, Ragavan worked in J. Sagar Associates, a New Delhi based law firm, in-housed as a legal counsel for Wipro Industries and worked as a legal consultant for WorldTel India Limited.

Ragavan serves as a special consultant to Ali Associates, a Chennai, India based boutique specializing in law and technology practice.

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Books

• Patents and Trade Disparities in Developing Countries (forthcoming, Oxford University Press, NY, 2012). (Separate reprint commissioned for the Indian market by Oxford University Press, New Delhi, India)

Book Chapters

• Of Plant Variety Protection, Agricultural Subsidies and the WTO, Intellectual Property & Information Wealth by Preager Publications. (pdf) Available at: http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/C8882.aspx
• To Sow or Not to Sow - Dilemmas From Creating New Food Rights, Agricultural Biotechnology and Intellectual Property: Seeds of Change, CABI Publishers. Available at: http://www.cabi.org/bk_BookDisplay.asp?PID=2003
• Protection Of Traditional Knowledge, Indigenous People, The Environment And The Law, Carolina Academic Press, 2004. (pdf) Available at: http://www.cap-press.com/books/1218

Law Review & Articles

• The Dispute Settlement Process of the WTO: A Normative Structure To Achieve Utilitarian Objectives, (co-authored with Brian Manning), 79 UMKC L. Rev. 1 (2010) (pdf)
• Dying to Dine: A Story of the Suicidal Indian Farmers, 1 Jindal Global Law Review 227 (2009) (India). (pdf)
• A Note on the Journey of the Bilski Patent Application , 2 Scientech-Patent Art 3 (2008) 10. (pdf)
• New Paradigms For Protection Of Biodiversity, 13 Journal of Intellectual Property Rights (India), 514 ( 2008). (pdf)
• Patent Judicial Wisdom, 165 National Law School of India Review 20 (2) (2008). (pdf)
• Has India Addressed Its Farmers' Woes? A Story of Plant Protection Issues (co-authored with Jamie Mayer) (20 Georgetown International Environmental Law Review 97 (2007)). (pdf)
• (reproduced in) Lawrence Helfner and Graeme Austin (Ed), Human Rights and Intellectual Property: Mapping the Global Interface, Cambridge University Press (2010).
• Of the Inequals of Uruguay, 274 Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review 10 (2006). (pdf)
• The Status of Detainees from the Iraq & Afghanistan Conflicts (co-authored with Michael Mireless Jr), 2 Utah Law Review 619 (2005) . (pdf)
• The Jekyll & Hyde Story of International Trade: The TRIPS Agreement & the US Supreme Court, 38 Richmond Law Review 777 (2004). (pdf)
• A Patent Restriction On 'R & D: Infringers or Innovators, 1 Illinois Journal of Law, Technology & Policy 73 (2004). (pdf)
• AIDS As A Detriment To India Shining: The New Government's Focus on Patents, NALSAR News Letter, NALSAR, India (2004). (pdf)
• Can't We All Get Along? - The Case For A Workable Patent Model, 117 Arizona State Law Journal 200 (2003). (Paper presented at the University of Pennsylvania Law School). (pdf)
• Protection Of Traditional Knowledge, 2 Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Review 1 (2001). (Republished by the Kanchi University, Bio-Informatics Center for Medicinal Plants, India). (pdf)
• The Global South As The Key To Biodiversity And Biotechnology--A Reply To Professor Chen, 32 Environmental Law Reporter 10358 (2001) (pdf).
• Biological Diversity: An Indian Perspective on North-South Issues, 6 High Tech. Proc. 225 (2000). (Paper presented at the High Tech. Summit, University of Washington, Seattle). (pdf)
• Patent Amendments In India In The Wake Of TRIPS, CASRIP News Letter (Center for Advanced Studies in Intellectual Prop., Univ. of Washington, Seattle) Vol. 8, Issue I, (2001) at 12. (Republished by the Journal Of Intellectual Property Rights, NALSAR, India). (pdf)
• India: A Safe Haven For Foreign Investment - A Look At Joint Ventures And Laws That Govern Them, with Leela Guttina, Journal of Licensing Executive Society (2002). (Presented at the Licensing & Executive Soc. Meeting, Chicago, Sep. 2002). (pdf)

Newspaper Interviews

• Experts Talk on Media Issues, The Hindu, April 26, 2012
• Students scan textbooks to skirt cost, The Daily Oklahoman, Feb 11, 2011
• Why India lags in creating IP, Business Line, July 26, 2010
• Opportunity lost (Part II) Business Line, August 9, 2010
• CSIR wing objects to Avesthagen patent claim, LiveMint, India, April 28, 2010
• Delhi HC turns down Bayer's patent claims, LiveMint, India, February 10, 2010
• A US Judgment that is Relevant to the Novartis Case, The Business Line, India, March 25, 2007.
• Three Scenarios that are Latent in the Patent Case, The Business Line, India, March, 13, 2007.
• There is No Need to be "Trip"ed by Patents, The Business Line, India, March 14, 2007.
• Para IV Filings: The Fight Continues, Modern Pharmaceuticals, India, August 2007 (pdf)
• Law as a Prime Career of Choice, Education Plus, The Hindu, January 20, 2007.
• Patent Length for a New Molecule, Modern Pharmaceuticals, India, March, 2006.
• India can use Flexibilities within TRIPS to solve national issues, Indian Express, Jan 2004.