Kremlin on Tartar sweet

Don’t worry, experts say after Pakistan gets GI tag for its own Basmati rice

Basmati joint heritage of the subcontinent; Pakistan’s exports will not dent India's share

Doing very nicely without IPRs

We need to re-imagine the role of the state in creating knowledge without intellectual property rights

The India effect

The US is targeting India's patent law because it is inspiring other countries to follow suit

Blood on the Internet

Governments are censoring digital content on the ground that it infringes intellectual ­property rights or offends people. Can they be stopped?

What's the fuss about Bt brinjal?

Mohammad Rafiqul Islam Mondal, director-general of Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), is among the handful of people who have …

Fig leaf for the business world

That is what the Montreal Protocol, meant to do away with ozone depleting substances, has become. India's phase out programme under the protocol …

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

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

Patents Vs Patients

WTO's conundrum: cheap drugs for poor countries or protecting North's business interests

Knowledge doctrines

Not brewing right

Tea in the Darjeeling hills is losing its flavour

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

Hush!

The refrigerant and air conditioning industry in India remains quiet about its moves post 2002 when it stops using chlorofluorocarbons. Is it …

A case of myopia?

For manufacturers of ozone destorying substances in the South its time to make a tough call. The protocol brings the bigwigs of the North-based …

New science policy brings in PPP

Makes provision for public funding of corporate research and development

Healthy advice to pharma companies

Cut-and-paste patent report withdrawn

‘Compromise’ on TRIPS waiver is a sellout

Tough new conditions emerge in the compromise deal to ease WTO intellectual property barriers to production of COVID-19 medical tools

God’s Invincible Laddoo

Tirupati temple wins its Geographical Indications case on a specious logic; registry order sidesteps fundamental issues

Annoying the US, our way

Despite close cooperation with American enforcement officials, US unhappy with India’s report card

Win one, lose many

India needs to have a hard look at the sources of all its varied traditional knowledge and how to protect them

Dispensing with dear drugs

New US law to clear the decks for generic drugs (Read full article)

Bill Or Bull?

Why is India pushing for the enactment of a bill that does not protect agriculture?

Inequalities keep shifting as knowledge enters market