A case for plant patents

Grain drain

India wins the battle over basmati. But the war still continues

BIOTECH COMPENSATION

A diverse bill

It is important to generate a national debate on the Biological Diversity Bill

Yet another victim

Peru's war on 'biopiracy'

Farmers in Peru irate over US patents on 'natural viagra'

Knowledge creation

No longer the sole province of the most industrialised

Rice row

US eyeing patent on Thai jasmine rice?

Confused and weak

The Biological Diversity Act has lost sight of what it originally set out to do

Finally, firm no to software patents

The Patent Office has clearly said software patents can only be granted if linked to novel hardware

Gifts of the non-patenters

Inventors like Tim Berners-Lee didn't apply for patents on their innovations, leaving enduring benefits for all of us

Winds of changes

Indian industrialists and scientists want the country's property rights to be "strengthened", but the powerful drugs industry wants to maintain …

Beyond 'intelligence'

BEYOND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: TOWARDS TRADITIONAL RESOURCE RIGHTS FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES· Darrell A Posey and Graham …

It's all in the name

Thai farmers and activists object to a US company's use of the name Jasmati for a rice variety

Cooking up mustard

This genetically modified plant is a marker of discontent

Playing knowledge games

Patent solution

Digital library to store data collected from ancient texts on medicinal properties of plants

Treacherous Syngenta

The world's third largest seed company files patents for public-funded rice research

D Srinivasa Reddy takes over as Director CSIR-IICT

Reddy will also hold the additional charge of the post of director of CSIR-IIIM, Jammu and director, CSIR-CDRI, Lucknow

It will be months before there is consensus over COVID-19 vaccine patents: Experts

The United States has supported a temporary waiver on COVID-19 vaccine patents; but not all is hunky-dory, say experts

Beware of a deal with Trump

As the US president comes visiting to India there is worry about the demands he will make on intellectual property

India denies Gilead patent for hepatitis C drug, sofosbuvir

Companies that have not signed any licence agreement with US pharma giant are now free to produce generic versions of the drug

Which way out?

Industry and people's rights organisations in India are at loggerheads over the shaping of the biodiversity bill and amendments to the existing …

Winning laurels

A new method for discovering important chemicals that could damage the nervous system gains a US patent for its inventors

'There is a conflict in gene patenting in India and abroad'

ASIS DUTTA, a senior biologist at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, is the first Indian scientist to have applied for a gene patent in …