US trading on thin ice

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

Net effect

Environmentalism offers a rich analogy for the politics of copyright on the Internet

Policy of encirclement

Copyright issues impinge on democracy

Siva Vaidhyanathan says he holds a debt to copyright regimes. Studying these systems, allowed him to explore cultural interactions in Afro-…

Uncle Sam won't give in

A rice by another name

Thailand threatens to take the US to the WTO for allowing a Texas-based company to use "jasmati" as a trademark for a variety of rice

PIRACY GALORE

Signing up

Finally, India decides to sign the patents treaty

Inventors gain

But the South feels cheated

Patent bank

Informational intricacies

WHO OWNS INFORMATION? FROM PRIVACY TO PUBLIC ACCESS Anne Wells Branscomb Basic Books

Farmers in distress

A proposed new law threatens to abandon farmers to the tender mercies of seed corporations

Tribal triumph

The Kani tribals are awarded a patent

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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

Tribal rights to the fore

The veryfirst scheme to recognise the intellectual property rights of the Kani tribals in Kerala, ran into rough weather, only to bounce back …

Undercover bio-patenting

A recentforum on patenting life-forms in Munich chose to remain a hush-hush affair leaving out people's groups

Research rights

An intellectual property rights policy has been cleared for the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

At their mercy

Biotech companies and the World Trade Organisation took centrestage at the fourth conference on biological diversity, leaving traditional …

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

Patenting life forms

Europe approves the legislation for patenting organisms

New patent report

Fortification plans