WIPO Meeting 2024: New treaty on genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge in place

Mandatory disclosure of source of genetic material and associated traditional knowledge could benefit biodiversity rich countries; concerns …

Policy of encirclement

WTO decision on access to COVID-19 drugs without strings delayed

Proposal will be formally discussed in March next year, sources say

Knowledge doctrines

The Maasai are protecting their intellectual property rights, what of others like India's Warlis?

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Films chained, unchained

IPR claims by big companies; farmers' food security under threat

Patents on seeds by corporations leave farmers unable to save or share seeds

Union Budget 2020-21: Examining the agri-research agenda

Increased investment in agriculture research an absolute need of the hour

The first punch

Cabinet approves country's first IPR policy

The policy is expected to lay the future roadmap for intellectual property in India

Copyright bill restricts Net access

Law to curb piracy may fetter creativity  

Coorg cardamom gets GI status

Scientists' interest v the public's

Seminars promote patents

Cipla puts US law school on notice     

Kremlin on Tartar sweet

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

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

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

'Microbes can be patented'

Water in a sieve

Don’t confine global resources to national boundaries