The curious case of Covaxin royalties

ICMR’s contradictions and obfuscation on ownership of the vaccine’s intellectual property is not helping in the fight against COVID-…

COVID-19 Challenge 2021: How does the world overcome vaccine shortage

The pharmaceuticals industry must come together to ensure all adults are vaccinated against the novel coronavirus; …

Treasure and the tricks

Conserving genetic purity of 750 varieties of rice with limited resources like a small piece of land and no workforce is a major challenge. Debal …

Looming threat of a secretive trade pact

Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement will extend restrictive intellectual property laws globally

GI woe

Geographical indication debate intensifies as EU ups the ante

Fight over Novartis's patent to intensify

Madras HC dismisses Novartis' petition

Ranbaxy fights Pfizer on generic drugs but wants strong home law on patents

Patently hollow claims of the US

Global organisations and academics defend India’s IP laws and call for US to back off

Why scientists don’t back Novartis claim

As Novartis’ Indian patent case reaches end, a reminder of how scientists view unfair patents

Menacing US diplomacy

Specialist attachés are strenuously pushing maximalist intellectual property rules worldwide

A monopoly like none other

An amendment to the Montreal Protocol without addressing IPR issues of HFOs would mean that the entire MAC sector would be at the mercy of three …

A victory and a retreat on CLs

Supreme Court upholds India's first compulsory licence but government baulks at giving the second

WHOSE SEED IS IT ANYWAY?

The rich world’s mania for patenting seeds and pushing the UPOV agenda do not aid food security or biological diversity

Beware of Policymakers

PEOPLE, PLANTS AND PATENTS: THE IMPACT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ON BIODIVERSITY, CONSERVATION, TRADE AND RURAL SOCIETY·Crucible group&…

Indications of a geographic muddle

Are Geographical Indications safeguarding the interests of growers and artisans?

EU court asks Microsoft to fall in line

Amul loses its sugar-free market

Let the genes cross borders

National sovereignty over genetic resources could undermine food security

Blacked out & hacked

The fight to protect Internet freedom turns into war of attrition as protests against US measures to curb piracy grow strident

Acta is trade terrorism

India’s generic medicines export faces a huge threat from the anti-counterfeiting law which creates barriers to global trade

Starved of substance

No headway made at World Food Summit in accelerating efforts to eliminate hunger

Uphill TRIPS

Bid to revive morality, transparency issues in patents regime amid stiff resistance

'Microbes can be patented'

Twist in the TRIPS tale

UK panel endorses South's stand on intellectual property rights