IPR course in school? It's silly

Promoting the study of intellectual property rights without focusing on innovation is so misplaced that it's laughable

Beware of Japan's trade ambitions

Japan is pushing for higher levels of intellectual property protection that will cut access to affordable medicines

Politics of the Internet

Regulating the Internet to keep it free of pressures from governments and corporate interests is turning tougher for the UN

The battle for knowledge

What are patents? Why have they become politically contentious and a major source of friction between rich nations and the developing world?

Seminars promote patents

Cipla puts US law school on notice     

Quality of life in informal settlements: Basic sanitation services a luxury

The SC/ST community had the highest proportion of those who did not have access to a toilet

Coronavirus vaccines: Tech transfer is the new mantra

A tech transfer hub for mRNA vaccines is being set up in South Africa, a first for the continent; but will the pharmaceutical companies play ball?

TRIPS waiver for COVID-19 vaccines, meds just got tougher after US support

Biden administration wants text-based negotiations on a waiver limited to vaccines but no one is complaining   

Cyclonic rains ravage coastal Andhra; death toll rises to 25

Crops on 250,000 hectares destroyed, 60,000 people in relief camps

Rising power of the knowledge commons

By ending ownership of ideas we can banish ignorance and change human history

Kremlin on Tartar sweet

Doing very nicely without IPRs

We need to re-imagine the role of the state in creating knowledge without intellectual property rights

Don’t worry, experts say after Pakistan gets GI tag for its own Basmati rice

Basmati joint heritage of the subcontinent; Pakistan’s exports will not dent India's share

The India effect

The US is targeting India's patent law because it is inspiring other countries to follow suit

Blood on the Internet

Governments are censoring digital content on the ground that it infringes intellectual ­property rights or offends people. Can they be stopped?

What's the fuss about Bt brinjal?

Mohammad Rafiqul Islam Mondal, director-general of Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), is among the handful of people who have …

Big tobacco blows new smoke rings

A third front has opened up in their war on Australia’s cigarette packaging rules

WTO members agree to discuss proposal to waive patents on COVID-19 technologies 

The waiver would increase access to technologies crucial to fighting the pandemic

The irrelevance of multilateralism

Rich countries gang up for a more strident intellectual property rights regime

World Intellectual Property Organization working towards treaty on traditional knowledge, folklore

Draft text though fails to address the problem of biopiracy of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge using patents, says experts

‘PESTICIDES’ IN DRUGS

Sharad Pawar’s provision for protecting test data in the Pesticides Bill could spill over into trade agreements and hit the drugs industry, too

New science policy brings in PPP

Makes provision for public funding of corporate research and development

A treaty to block cheaper drugs

Developed countries to use a geographical advantage to stop generics

God’s Invincible Laddoo

Tirupati temple wins its Geographical Indications case on a specious logic; registry order sidesteps fundamental issues

Wooing the judges, openly

There is conflict of interest as US patent owners schedule meetings with Indian judiciary and patent regulators