Annoying the US, our way
Despite close cooperation with American enforcement officials, US unhappy with India’s report card
US pharma strikes back
Upset by the Supreme Court’s endorsement of India’s patent law, the American drug industry is lobbying with Obama to tighten the …
Gene patent verdict is as good as it gets
The US Supreme Court’s verdict in the Myriad case keeps everyone happy
Big blue trips up Twitter
IBM’s claim of patent violation by Twitter reflects the madness in software litigation in the US
The Microsoft way
Wherein an Indian firm using pirated Microsoft software here is sued in the US by California state for using unfair trade advantage
Looming threat of a secretive trade pact
Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement will extend restrictive intellectual property laws globally
Medicines Pool Swirls
Drug companies are slowly joining the UN effort to offer life-saving patented medicines to poor countries but the terms are sometimes restrictive
Jugaad of Indian innovation
Patting ourselves for our ability to arrive at makeshift solutions will not take us far
A victory and a retreat on CLs
Supreme Court upholds India's first compulsory licence but government baulks at giving the second
He had a dream and a copyright
Martin Luther King's seminal speech on Black rights in 1963 is still not in the public domain because of strict copyright enforcement
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
The Smithsonian steps on the ants
Iconic museum files patent claim on fungi to control leafcutter ants—a well-known fact
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
Indications of a geographic muddle
Are Geographical Indications safeguarding the interests of growers and artisans?
Saying no to Monsanto
The Indian patent office has once again rejected the biotech seed giant’s claim for a method to produce stress-tolerant transgenic plants
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
Drained royally by MNCs
Royalty payments to firms like Suzuki and Monsanto are sucking out huge sums from India
A nobel indictment of gene patenting
Legendary scientist James Watson files court brief against lunacy of gene patents
Why do we need patents?
There is no empirical evidence that patents serve to increase innovation and productivity
Tesla's `insane' move to free up patents
The electric carmaker's decision could spur a revolution in green vehicles and in the way patents are viewed
Prometheus bound
The denial of a patent on a medical test that correlates drug dosages with treatment could mean the end of human gene patents
Ignore US bullying on IPRs
Countries should not be stampeded into changing laws by the USTR's arbitrary Special 301 report