Suspect claims in Teva’s suit against Cipla

The US Federal Trade Commission has warned the Israeli drug firm its patents are wrongful as it sues Cipla aggressively

क्या मेडिकल पेटेंट का भयावह इतिहास रच रही है दवा कंपनी फाइजर?

दवाओं को वैश्विक बौद्धिक संपदा व्यवस्था में लाना फाइजर की अगुवाई में कॉर्पोरेट धोखाधड़ी की जीत थी

The squalid history of medical patents

Bringing medicines into the global intellectual property regime was a triumph of corporate skulduggery led by Pfizer

Why do judges need to be ‘sensitised’?

Powerful industry lobbies are tutoring Indian judiciary how to resolve patent disputes

Narkya—and the plunder of biodiversity

Dilution of biological conservation rules and lax enforcement of forest laws are giving free rein to the drug industry and trade

A nobel indictment of gene patenting

Legendary scientist James Watson files court brief against lunacy of gene patents

The irrelevance of multilateralism

Rich countries gang up for a more strident intellectual property rights regime

Gene patent verdict is as good as it gets

The US Supreme Court’s verdict in the Myriad case keeps everyone happy

US piles on the pressure

Patent law, domestic content rules in solar and ICT policy come under attack

Indications of a geographic muddle

Are Geographical Indications safeguarding the interests of growers and artisans?

Safeguarding ancient wisdom

Traditional Knowledge Digital Library is a useful weapon against wrongful patent

Spy versus spy and high tech gizmos

From secure manhole covers to Internet tracking systems, NSA has an arsenal of patents

How to save $25 billion and more on drug costs

Patent settlements bring cheaper generics to market early and cut healthcare spending

Strong medicine for weak drug patents

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

Biodiversity—India’s other scandal

CAG slams the national biodiversity authority for allowing questionable patents

Rajasthan opens farm gates

State ties up with Monsanto, other biotech giants to restructure agriculture

A pre-emptive strike against Monsanto

American organic farmers are trying to ensure the biotech giant cannot sue them

The curious case of Ebola patents

The US government appears to have a cure and (almost) a vaccine for the deadly disease

ICAR chases patents for pickle

The National Research Centre on Meat has odd ideas on what can be patented

पेटेंट के क्षेत्र में चीन के दबदबे को चुनौती दे पाएगा भारत?

वैश्विक स्तर पर पेटेंट फाइल करने में भारत शीर्ष देशों में शुमार है, मगर महत्वपूर्ण तकनीकी खोजों में अपनी पहचान स्थापित करना अभी बाकी ...

These lethal changes in India’s patent rules

The proposed amendments are a capitulation to Big Pharma and will undermine vital public health safeguards in the law

Fake science, shady journals

India is way behind in the patents it files, the reason being that much of its science is of dubious quality

Bedaquiline and India's patent law

Opposition to the new patent claims on the Johnson & Johnson drug is a test of how well the rules against evergreening are working

The Chinese patent juggernaut

China has toppled Japan from No 2 spot and is set to become the leader in global patent filings, specially in future technologies

Lethal hypocrisy of US Special 301 Report

Patent protection in the US is a convoluted and expensive business and yet it pulls up other countries that have robust systems