Policy of encirclement

A dirty US fight to control WIPO

China loses to Singapore in American smear campaign but the US will have to contend with an IP powerhouse

New leaked chapter of Asia trade deal shows RCEP will undercut farmers’ control over seeds

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership threatens to increase corporate power in member countries, leaving ordinary people with little rights

A COVID-19 encore with monkeypox

A familiar pattern is emerging in the battle against monkeypox with the US and Europe grabbing scarce vaccine supplies

Effect of Brexit on unitary patents

The UK’s divorce from Europe will reduce IP protection and may result in an increase in the cost of protection of IP rights on the continent

How to evade a tricky patent call

Five government departments tossed the ball to each other to avoid a decision on revoking a Novartis patent

Limiting HFCs should not be a burden on the developing world

Developing countries should guard against a weak phase-down of the super-warming hydrofluorocarbons in the ongoing Montreal Protocol

Why do judges need to be ‘sensitised’?

Powerful industry lobbies, domestic and foreign, are tutoring our judiciary on how to resolve patent disputes

WTO decision on access to COVID-19 drugs without strings delayed

Proposal will be formally discussed in March next year, sources say

Knowledge doctrines

The Maasai are protecting their intellectual property rights, what of others like India's Warlis?

Why it pays to link products to places — and how African countries can do it

African countries can position geographical indications to help global IP rights enforcement for developing economies. Export of GI products will …

Bizarre patent tussles over a COVID-19 jab

Moderna’s many intellectual property disputes over its vaccine highlight the need for a patent-free regime to fight the pandemic

CSIR lays down law on patenting

Focus will be on licensing fees from patents and ending `biodata patents' that only embellish a scientist's CV

Darkening shadow over drug access

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership is another trade pact that will tighten patent laws

‘Compromise’ on TRIPS waiver is a sellout

Tough new conditions emerge in the compromise deal to ease WTO intellectual property barriers to production of COVID-19 medical tools

Annoying the US, our way

Despite close cooperation with American enforcement officials, US unhappy with India’s report card

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World Trade Organization steps back from the brink of irrelevance — but it’s not fixed yet

It is the first WTO treaty with environmental protection and sustainability as its objective

US trading on thin ice

As Trump escalates the trade war with China, the key question is what constitutes theft of intellectual property

Outsourcing patent functions

WIPO begins talks on controversial proposal to allow countries to outsource their patent examination processes to another country

Evergreening rampant in India

India's patent office has ignored the strict safeguards against evergreening and allowed a flood of secondary drug patents

Navara rice controversy: Plant Variety Act doesn’t protect farmers’ interests, say experts

A farmer’s plea to register a traditional rice variety has once again raised concerns about loopholes in the Protection of Plant …

Gujarat farmers sow potato seeds registered by PepsiCo, in symbolic protest

The multinational had sued four farmers in April, triggering a controversy that has now been reignited

Patents zoom, but where is the innovation?

India is among the top patent filers globally, but it has yet to make its mark in any breakthrough technologies