DR.

RAM MANOHAR LOHIYA NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY

LUCKNOW

Air and Space Law

Collected Material
SCOPE OF PATENT RIGHTS IN THE OUTER
SPACE

SUBMITTED TO: SUBMITTED BY:

DR. VIKAS BHATI SAHARSH CHITRANSH

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (LAW) B.A.LL.B. (Hons.) X SEM.

Dr. RMLNLU ENROLL. NO. 170101112

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i) Books
a. Small Satellites - Regulatory Challenges And Changes (Irmgard Marboe ed.,
2016).
b. Ram Jakhu, Legal Issues of Satellite Telecommunications, the Geostationary
Orbit, and Space Debris, 5 ASTROPOLITICS 173, 175 (2007).

ii) Treaties/ Conventions

a. Convention on Registration of Objects Launched into Outer Space, Jan. 14,
1975, 1023 U.N.T.S. 15
b. Basic Texts of the International Telecommunication Union Adopted by the
Plenipotentiary Conference

c. Convention on International Civil Aviation, art. 3, para. (d), art. 10, Dec. 7,
1944, 15 U.N.T.S. 295.

d. Paris Agreement, art. 2, para. 1, Dec. 15, 2015.

iii) Article
a. Myres S. McDougal, Artificial Satellites: A Modest Proposal, 51 AM. J.
INT’L L. 75–77 (1957).

iv) Online Articles

a. Marco Villa, Builders of Satellites Large and Small Must Work Together to
Benefit Science, SPACE NEWS MAG., https://www.spacenewsmag.
com/commentary/builders-of-satellites-large-and-small%E2%80%A8-must-
worktogether-to-benefit-science.
b. Technology Quarterly: A Sudden Light, ECONOMIST,
http://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly.
c. Debra Werner, More Than Meets the Eye, SPACE NEWS MAG.,
https://www.spacenewsmag.com/feature/more-than-meets-the-eye.
d. Jason Andrews, Time for Smallsats to Grow Up and Take Responsibility,
SPACE NEWS MAG., https://www.spacenewsmag.com/commentary/timefor-
smallsats-to-grow-up-and-take-responsibility/.

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