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

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

Small brother is watching you

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

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?

Patenting a tradition

Save our rice

Patents Case

Getting serious?

The Union government sets up a task force to protect India's medicinal plants

Staking a claim

Roots of paucity

US policy limits agricultural yield of poor nations

A price on the living

Environmentalists allege that the European Parliament has sold out to multinational firms by allowing patents on lifeforms

Nature's minor gifts

Even as microbes -silent and efficient behind-the-screen contributors to the ecosystem -continue to revel under the spotlight abroad, in India, …

Patent fears

Scientists in Karnataka are forced by the administration to abandon efforts towards documenting the biodiversity knowledge of indigenous people

Union Budget 2020-21: Examining the agri-research agenda

Increased investment in agriculture research an absolute need of the hour