Unconventional interference

The United States has decreed that GATT will have the last word on intellectual property rights, thus throwing the Biodiversity Convention to the …

The thorn buds

Parisians see red and intercept a consignment of Indian roses meant to reach French women on Valentines day, turning it into a thorny issue

Swift billing for UPOV

Patent piques

An Indo- US biodiversity research project contract has stirred up a hornet's nest

Saving gesture

Monsanto loses wheat patent

Patent link

A case for plant patents

Safer paracetamol

Patent tactics

The US applies pressure over new patents law on drugs in Brazil amidst stringent criticism

Sharing benefits

Patents galore

No more thieving

Arm-twisting

GE to be sued

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Signing up

Finally, India decides to sign the patents treaty

Self-help is best help

A British woman applies to patent herself

Inventors gain

But the South feels cheated

Private bullies

Protest over AIDS drug patent

Environmental trade-off

The US signs a new trade agenda and seeks stricter control over its intellectual property rights in India

Patent parley

The Rao government has proved itself unconvincing in handling the Opposition on GATT-related patent reforms

The squalid history of medical patents

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

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