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Patent Prosecution Highway: The fast track to disaster

India's decision to start one for Japanese firms could open the tollgates to hasty approvals

Trademark protest

Campaign>> Greenpeace • India

Assange trademark

Trademark>> Julian Assange • The UK

Gilead granted patent for hepatitis C drug Solvadi

The move is being seen as a possible impact of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s proposed visit to the US next month

The first punch

Coorg cardamom gets GI status

Scientists' interest v the public's

Kremlin on Tartar sweet

Mind your language Intellectual property police could be lurking with intent

The irrelevance of multilateralism

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

Amul loses its sugar-free market

Acta is trade terrorism

India’s generic medicines export faces a huge threat from the anti-counterfeiting law which creates barriers to global trade

Ignore US bullying on IPRs

Countries should not be stampeded into changing laws by the USTR's arbitrary Special 301 report

Trademarks, jai ho!

Songs have been the subject of copyright and trademark battles. In India composer A R Rahman is holding up a film for using his song Jai Ho as …

A rather ridiculous gap

Clothing giant Gap’s trademark infringement notice to an NGO selling products made from recycled waste is a curious case

Unholy smoke!

Inclusion of intellectual property in bilateral investment agreements is injurious to the health of developing nations

Indian company gets licence to manufacture and sell patented cancer drug

This is the first-ever compulsory licence given to a generic drug company