The curious case of Covaxin royalties

ICMR’s contradictions and obfuscation on ownership of the vaccine’s intellectual property is not helping in the fight against COVID-…

COVID-19 Challenge 2021: How does the world overcome vaccine shortage

The pharmaceuticals industry must come together to ensure all adults are vaccinated against the novel coronavirus; …

Treasure and the tricks

Conserving genetic purity of 750 varieties of rice with limited resources like a small piece of land and no workforce is a major challenge. Debal …

Looming threat of a secretive trade pact

Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement will extend restrictive intellectual property laws globally

COVID-19 vaccine: WTO chief brushes aside TRIPS waiver

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala offers ‘third way’ to bridge the COVID vaccine shortfall based on more licensing agreements

A monopoly like none other

An amendment to the Montreal Protocol without addressing IPR issues of HFOs would mean that the entire MAC sector would be at the mercy of three …

A victory and a retreat on CLs

Supreme Court upholds India's first compulsory licence but government baulks at giving the second

Patently hollow claims of the US

Global organisations and academics defend India’s IP laws and call for US to back off

Why scientists don’t back Novartis claim

As Novartis’ Indian patent case reaches end, a reminder of how scientists view unfair patents

Menacing US diplomacy

Specialist attachés are strenuously pushing maximalist intellectual property rules worldwide

WHOSE SEED IS IT ANYWAY?

The rich world’s mania for patenting seeds and pushing the UPOV agenda do not aid food security or biological diversity

Indications of a geographic muddle

Are Geographical Indications safeguarding the interests of growers and artisans?

Let the genes cross borders

National sovereignty over genetic resources could undermine food security

Blacked out & hacked

The fight to protect Internet freedom turns into war of attrition as protests against US measures to curb piracy grow strident

World leaders should choose people over profit

Rising hunger, inequality, loss of livelihoods, climate change, environmental degradation, war and vaccine inequality pushed excluded people to …

Acta is trade terrorism

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

'Microbes can be patented'

Who is really afraid of the TRIPS agreement? 

India has not shown the grit to fully use the inbuilt flexibilities in the WTO’s TRIPS pact to protect public health

Ignore US bullying on IPRs

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

Water in a sieve

Don’t confine global resources to national boundaries

FARM IP, ENTER WIPO

Developing countries will now have to battle IP issues related to new agricultural technologies at WIPO instead of WTO

The innovation WHO needs

The strategy to push public health, innovation and intellectual property is a tough challenge because of funding constraints

Brickbats for compulsory licences

US criticises India and BRIC group for strengthening provisions on life-saving medicines

A patent triumph of public interest

New flexibilities make public interest safeguards integral to drug patent rights

Strong medicine for weak drug patents

Revocation of Pfizer, Roche patents for lacking inventive step signals healthy trend