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 new Word for Microsoft

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

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

Generic options

Roche grants licence to Indian pharma company

Microsoft accuses Linux of patent violations

Climate-ready

40 km for Rs 5

Indian scientists design a bike engine that runs on air

Finally, firm no to software patents

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