Patents Case

Update

Stealing what is ours

Protecting knowledge

The Plant Varieties and Farmers Protection Bill is to be tabled in Parliament

Rice row

US eyeing patent on Thai jasmine rice?

Confused and weak

The Biological Diversity Act has lost sight of what it originally set out to do

Tragic potion

Herbal drug stuck in IPR jam, tribal group biggest loser

India moves to restructure IPR issues

Kamal Nath dashes letters to 31 countries

The first punch

Historic win for farmer seed rights: PepsiCo’s IPR on potato variety revoked

Judgement against Pepsico potato variety sets precedent for all seed and food and beverages corporations not to transgress farmers’ seed …

In the midst of war, Russia hits at patents

As US-EU sanctions deepen, Moscow passes a law to allow free use of patents owned by ‘unfriendly countries’

Civil society raises concern over RCEP negotiations

The free trade agreement will cover a large range of issues—trade in goods, agriculture, services, investment and intellectual property

Finally, firm no to software patents

The Patent Office has clearly said software patents can only be granted if linked to novel hardware

Winds of changes

Indian industrialists and scientists want the country's property rights to be "strengthened", but the powerful drugs industry wants to maintain …

Ethiopian berries help to battle mussels

The berries of an Ethiopian plant have been found to be effective against mussels, which are carriers of the schistosomiasis parasite.

What a mess

Should the people of South Africa be denied medicines because they are too poor to pay for them?

"Genetically modified technology is absolutely price neutral"

Graham Brookes, an agricultural economist and director of the UK-based PG Economics limited, a research and consultancy organisation, has …

It's all in the name

Thai farmers and activists object to a US company's use of the name Jasmati for a rice variety

Foreign invasion

How the West is trying to steal what is ours

Open secret

Were medicinal plants exported without government permission?

A model arrangement

Not keeping pace

China set to wrest neem initiative from India

Playing knowledge games

Research must go on

An icmr workshop shows developing researchers ways to live with trips

Post-pandemic blues of predatory pharma

Huge stockpiles of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, along with a steep drop in revenues, tell a sorry tale of Big Pharma’s greed