Waking up to ACTA
How not to save WTO
The WTO mini-ministerial held in March in New Delhi showed a poverty of ideas on how to protect the multilateral trade bloc from US assaults
China’s intellectual property revolution
China saw an amazing transformation from a copycat nation, which was a byword for piracy, into a powerhouse of innovation
Why the US fears China
The trade war launched by Trump has the alleged theft of intellectual property at its core
TPP has been trumped
Donald Trump's first priority is to withdraw the US from the Pacific Rim mega trade pact—and that's good news
The fading mirage of a TRIPS waiver
A year later, the proposal to lift WTO’s intellectual property blocks to making COVID vaccines has not inched forward
WTO's assault on India
The US has serious problems with India, mostly related to programmes providing a lifeline to vulnerable farmers and ensuring food security of …
Will a new and ‘improved’ WTO be in India’s interests
The World Trade Organization needs an overhaul, but the reform will leave even less space for developing nations
Doha endgame at Nairobi
WTO has buried the development mandate of the Doha round, with India failing to pull its weight at the ministerial meeting
High on broth, low on geography
Geographical indication tags are being handed out indiscriminately—with no strategy
WTO trumped by America
WTO's recent ministerial meeting at Buenos Aires highlights the strain on the multilateral trading bloc from US unilateralism and its own`unfair' …
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?
More give than take in secret trade deals
The tight secrecy over trade negotiations means citizens are not privy to the deals that affect them directly
A pact to choke
To join the RCEP, a major regional trade bloc, India is making huge concessions without getting anything significant in return
US plays dirty on tar sands
The EU appears to have backed off on important climate change policy because of pressure from US-backed Big Oil
The irrelevance of multilateralism
Rich countries gang up for a more strident intellectual property rights regime
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
Looming threat of a secretive trade pact
Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement will extend restrictive intellectual property laws globally
COVID-19 vaccine: WTO chief brushes aside TRIPS waiver
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala offers ‘third way’ to bridge the COVID vaccine shortfall based on more licensing agreements
Menacing US diplomacy
Specialist attachés are strenuously pushing maximalist intellectual property rules worldwide
Predatory EU pacts
EU is pushing India and Canada to sign free trade agreements that will hurt their generic drugs—and the outrage is global
दवा की बड़ी कंपनियों की लाॅबिंग के पीछे का कड़वा सच
अमेरिकी दवा कंपनियां चाहती हैं कि कोविड-19 वैक्सीन या दवाओं को बौद्धिक संपदा अधिकार के दायरे से बाहर रखने की भारत की मांग को ...
Acta is trade terrorism
India’s generic medicines export faces a huge threat from the anti-counterfeiting law which creates barriers to global trade
Plant protection authority sets right its potato blunder
A public campaign forced it to revoke registration of PepsiCo’s potato variety, but the agency needs to reset its priorities
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