Drained royally by MNCs

Royalty payments to firms like Suzuki and Monsanto are sucking out huge sums from India

A nobel indictment of gene patenting

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

Public domain is not elementary, Sherlock

The Sherlock Holmes case highlights the stranglehold of copyright laws in the US

ICAR’s shoddy science

Inquiry panel finds Bt cotton project had serious flaws, scientists were unethical

The desperation of farmers

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

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

ANNA TO BINAYAK AND TATA

Left sees red over Marx copyright

A small publisher of Collected Works has run afoul of Marxists by asserting copyright

GM and the superhero

Bitter ABS medicine for AYUSH

Manufacturers cry foul as they receive notices from state boards to pay royalty

Yale guide to fighting drug patent barriers

How human rights can be used to challenge oppressive intellectual property laws

Agroecology is the only way

Rajasthan scraps seed pacts

ICAR tells Rajasthan to wait for guidelines on benefit sharing, biosafety

Annihilation of caste and copyright claims

Ambedkar’s works have been published widely and yet pose a copyright conundrum

How I stopped worrying and learned to love Fukushima

Memories of Agent Orange

Mark Lynas and the demeaning of science

He’s fuzzy on facts and low on science, but the campaigner gets big media support

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

Biosafety issues get a push

Experts to study socio-economic aspects of GMO release

Whose homeland security?

Nuclear fault lines run deep

Secrecy, fettered regulator are a worry as India plans nuclear expansion