A model arrangement

Not keeping pace

China set to wrest neem initiative from India

Playing knowledge games

Research must go on

An icmr workshop shows developing researchers ways to live with trips

Safeguards missing

Africa's lax biopiracy laws leave its rich biodiversity exposed

Tradition incorporated

Patents are welcome only if the traditional rights of people are protected

Leaving their mark

Old-style corruption better?

Cabinet approves country's first IPR policy

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

News snippets

Herbal remedies

A new venture makes a foray into the world herbal market

Facilitator or barrier?

Doubts linger as India prepares to ratify two global plant pacts

Jumping the gun

The bill fails to utilise obvious relief routes offered by TRIPS

Hong Kong: a beginning?

In making TRIPS responsive to needs of poor countries?

Copyright bill restricts Net access

Law to curb piracy may fetter creativity  

Money at last

The Kani tribals finally get their dues

US rejects developing nations proposal on TRIPS

Rejects TRIPS amendment

Proposed IPR law raises concerns

Coorg cardamom gets GI status

Scientists' interest v the public's

PATENT TROUBLES

A bitter dose

Multinational drug firms gang up against a company that wants to produce cheaper generics

Sans safeguards?

The newly amended patents bill is replete with loopholes

Seminars promote patents

Cipla puts US law school on notice     

Under siege