No climate for cleantech

Most of the clean energy innovations are with just six rich countries and hardly any technology is coming to developing nations

A lethal secrecy in trade deals

Why do democratic governments hide trade negotiations that have dire consequences for public services?

Pursuing a nationalist IPR policy

India has enough laws to protect its intellectual property rights. It is the implementation that is wanting

The pirates come ashore

German Pirate Party’s strong showing in the May elections is a sign that anti-IPR movements resonate with the people

Patent issues delaying Ebola cure

Canada's exclusive licensing rights of its Ebola patent to a US firm are holding up global development of a vaccine

What Durban did not discuss

IPRs are blocking access to mitigation and adaptation technologies. India offers a way out

New endosulfan ploy

Industry is sidestepping issues by pitching the proposed UN ban on endosulfan as the battle between generics and patented pesticides

Predatory EU pacts

EU is pushing India and Canada to sign free trade agreements that will hurt their generic drugs—and the outrage is global

WTO gives India a clean chit

Apex trade regulator finds nothing amiss in India's intellectual property laws after exhaustive review

A people’s festival to protest CBD conference

Non-profits to represent united resolve to protect the country’s natural wealth and bio-cultural heritage from powerful economic interests

Environment ministry rapped

Parliament committee says serious inadequacies in afforestation, biodiversity programmes

Biotech industry has a new patron

Department of Biotechnology is playing venture capitalist to private companies to push biotech research in agriculture

Unholy smoke!

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

Testing the CL route

Roche’s Herceptin will be a test case for government and generics industry as India readies to issue compulsory licences for life-saving drugs

EU threat to farmers

Free trade pact with EU will have a severe impact on Indian agriculture, specially the dairy sector

Fall of a premier institute

Amid funds siphoning allegations, future of National Institute of Pharma Education seems bleak

Trade barred

Countries protect their renewable energy equipment. Exporting nations see it as trade barrier  

‘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

Wooing the judges, openly

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

US pharma strikes back

Upset by the Supreme Court’s endorsement of India’s patent law, the American drug industry is lobbying with Obama to tighten the …

Big step for biocultural rights

The Nagoya Protocol promotes community stewardship of genetic resources. India needs to foster this

Post-pandemic blues of predatory pharma

Huge stockpiles of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, along with a steep drop in revenues, tell a sorry tale of Big Pharma’s greed   

Follow the Chinese way on high tech

Making universities the hub of innovation and churning out scientists adept in frontier technology has put China at the top

Untapped potential

India’s two-decade journey with Geographical Indication tags has shown limited out-come and there is an urgent need to simplify the …

Policy of encirclement