Policy of encirclement

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

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

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?

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

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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

US trading on thin ice

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

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 …

Films chained, unchained

Follow the Chinese way on high tech

Making universities the hub of innovation and churning out scientists adept in frontier technology has put China at the top

Untapped potential

India’s two-decade journey with Geographical Indication tags has shown limited out-come and there is an urgent need to simplify the …

Farmers' rights are a hot potato

The fallout between US major PepsiCo and Gujarat’s potato growers underlines the looming threat to farmers’ rights in India over …

Betrayal by monopoly

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Coronavirus vaccines: TRIPS waiver caught in WTO labyrinth

Little change in the position of countries opposing waiver of intellectual property rights; India-South Africa proposal being through hoops …

IPR claims by big companies; farmers' food security under threat

Patents on seeds by corporations leave farmers unable to save or share seeds

Union Budget 2020-21: Examining the agri-research agenda

Increased investment in agriculture research an absolute need of the hour