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
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
Public domain is not elementary, Sherlock
The Sherlock Holmes case highlights the stranglehold of copyright laws in the US
The innovation WHO needs
The strategy to push public health, innovation and intellectual property is a tough challenge because of funding constraints
Trademarks, jai ho!
Songs have been the subject of copyright and trademark battles. In India composer A R Rahman is holding up a film for using his song Jai Ho as …
The NATCO CL fallout
The compulsory licence granted to Natco may not be a trendsetter but it will shake up the pharmaceuticals market
FARM IP, ENTER WIPO
Developing countries will now have to battle IP issues related to new agricultural technologies at WIPO instead of WTO
Spy versus spy and high tech gizmos
From secure manhole covers to Internet tracking systems, NSA has an arsenal of patents