Anticompetitive Trade Practice and Data Protection in Indian Perspective

This article investigates into the demand for data protection law from a few specific sections of industries in the name of Indian commitment to the TRIPS agreement. The TRIPS Agreement makes it mandatory for the Members to protect undisclosed information. This article looks into the difference between data protection, data exclusivity and trade secret in an attempt to trace undisclosed information provision of the TRIPS Agreement. This article also investigates the anticompetitive trade practice forcefully implemented in the name of a separate legal tool for data protection.