All is not well: climate negotiations in a new avatar

Spy versus spy and high tech gizmos

From secure manhole covers to Internet tracking systems, NSA has an arsenal of patents

How to save $25 billion and more on drug costs

Patent settlements bring cheaper generics to market early and cut healthcare spending

Rotten tomato for Monsanto

US biotech giant's claim on a natural tomato is its latest patent to be revoked by Europe after soy and wheat

Cotton quandary

As China, the world's biggest cotton buyer, restricts imports, the US aggressively competes with India for global market. Can India stay in the …

Left sees red over Marx copyright

A small publisher of Collected Works has run afoul of Marxists by asserting copyright

Diplomacy deficit

India wavers on including hydrofluorocarbons in Montreal Protocol meet agenda

From protests to where in 2012?

A complicated bus-ride

Rio: not plus or minus, just 20

Climate lectures don't make lessons

Grow food anywhere

With innovative use of space, people in cities are reclaiming their right to safe food

Yale guide to fighting drug patent barriers

How human rights can be used to challenge oppressive intellectual property laws

Doha: inaction in the face of urgency

Connected events and difficult future

Deal won, stakes lost

Cancun deal shifts burden on developing countries not developed

Cipla's audacious move

Why generics maker Cipla has asked government to revoke Novartis patent on respiratory ailment drug

Gunning for green tech

US continues to target India over its intellectual property regime, especially in pharma, green tech sectors

Patent hypocrisies of US

American business lobbies are spreading falsehoods about India’s patent policies—and glossing over their double standards

The endgame at Cancun

Vitamin D complex

When sunlight falls on the skin, it forms an essential nutrient, vitamin D. For people in India, which has an average of 300 clear sunny days in …

Weather dice is loaded

How to rewrite the Durban script

Equity: the next frontier in climate talks

Not rebuilding for tomorrow