Coorg cardamom gets GI status
Scientists' interest v the public's
Can vaccines become as cheap as generics?
Unlike with drugs, freeing up patents will not make it any easier to manufacture vaccines for COVID-19, says Cipla’s Hamied
High on broth, low on geography
Geographical indication tags are being handed out indiscriminately—with no strategy
Beware of Japan's trade ambitions
Japan is pushing for higher levels of intellectual property protection that will cut access to affordable medicines
Trans Pacific squeeze
The Trans Pacific Partnership is a mega trade deal that closes the doors for India's trade options
IPR course in school? It's silly
Promoting the study of intellectual property rights without focusing on innovation is so misplaced that it's laughable
Politics of the Internet
Regulating the Internet to keep it free of pressures from governments and corporate interests is turning tougher for the UN
The battle for knowledge
What are patents? Why have they become politically contentious and a major source of friction between rich nations and the developing world?
Seminars promote patents
Cipla puts US law school on notice
Coronavirus vaccines: Tech transfer is the new mantra
A tech transfer hub for mRNA vaccines is being set up in South Africa, a first for the continent; but will the pharmaceutical companies play ball?
TRIPS waiver for COVID-19 vaccines, meds just got tougher after US support
Biden administration wants text-based negotiations on a waiver limited to vaccines but no one is complaining
Kremlin on Tartar sweet
Don’t worry, experts say after Pakistan gets GI tag for its own Basmati rice
Basmati joint heritage of the subcontinent; Pakistan’s exports will not dent India's share
Doing very nicely without IPRs
We need to re-imagine the role of the state in creating knowledge without intellectual property rights
The India effect
The US is targeting India's patent law because it is inspiring other countries to follow suit
Blood on the Internet
Governments are censoring digital content on the ground that it infringes intellectual property rights or offends people. Can they be stopped?
What's the fuss about Bt brinjal?
Mohammad Rafiqul Islam Mondal, director-general of Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), is among the handful of people who have …
Big tobacco blows new smoke rings
A third front has opened up in their war on Australia’s cigarette packaging rules
WTO members agree to discuss proposal to waive patents on COVID-19 technologies
The waiver would increase access to technologies crucial to fighting the pandemic
The irrelevance of multilateralism
Rich countries gang up for a more strident intellectual property rights regime
‘PESTICIDES’ IN DRUGS
Sharad Pawar’s provision for protecting test data in the Pesticides Bill could spill over into trade agreements and hit the drugs industry, too
New science policy brings in PPP
Makes provision for public funding of corporate research and development
A treaty to block cheaper drugs
Developed countries to use a geographical advantage to stop generics
God’s Invincible Laddoo
Tirupati temple wins its Geographical Indications case on a specious logic; registry order sidesteps fundamental issues