Competitive policies

The Ericsson case highlights the uneasy interface between competition policy and patent law

Should life forms be patented globally?

Patents are monopoly rights granted to the inventors to protect their economic interests. But this becomes complicated when the patent is …

Mass movement against Dunkel draft

Forty-five bodies have joined hands to mobilise protest campaigns against changes in laws which will comply with GATT proposals for a new …

Ours and theirs

An American company appropriates the name 'basmati' as its own, and the contentious issue of patents and protection comes to the fore once again

Losers still

The mad scramble for patenting the magic malaria antidote is seemingly resulting in dishonesty and plagiarism, while Onges, the actual knowledge …

No penny for the Onges?

The discovery of a generation-old plant extract used by Onges in The Andarnans has patent-hungry profiteers jostling their way down There The …

Looks like Basmati but

India is losing the pride of many a pulao -- the aroma and taste of basmati rice. What are scientists and legal experts fighting about?

Protecting the nation's patents

V K GUPTA , director, National Institute of Science Communication (NISCOM), tells VIBHA VARSHNEY how they set about building the Traditional …

Patent fights

A treatment for AIDS

The US recognises an Ayurvedic treatment that can help combat AIDS

EC backs India

Patent challenged

Patenting life

It's time to take a moral and ethical look at the human genome project initiated in India

Sumptuous slumber

India sleeps tight while a US company acquires a patent over three rice strains

Patented to act

Basmati embroglio -- stoked to cook

Small brother is watching you

Private policing of Internet backed by courts is leading to censorship that affects everyone

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

Rejection of Dunkel proposals is a farce

Observers say the government's rejection of the Dunkel proposals on seed patenting is just an eyewash.

Time for India to take stock

The new trade order ordained by GATT affects India's entire economy. Some consider it a new form of colonialism, but others see it as a bountiful …

Brushing up

India's good old neem tree could be used by industry if it stands by its assurances of research and resources

PIPRA: An attempt to hoodwink the Third World

The ongoing attempts to strengthen intellectual property protection regimes through the Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) …

Break the Deadlock

In 1995, many in India were outraged to learn that a university in the US was granted a patent to make and sell haldi (turmeric) for its wound …

A nobel indictment of gene patenting

Legendary scientist James Watson files court brief against lunacy of gene patents

A fair Share

Has India missed the boat?