Not so bitter

Fears of neem patenting by Western MNCs are blown out of proportion

ANDEAN PACT

ARGENTINA

Fresh offensive

IN FOCUS

ORIGINAL MALADY

Tribal triumph

The Kani tribals are awarded a patent

Life after TRIPS

The pharmaceutical industry must invest in research and development

From the blurbs

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

Why Americans pay more for prescription drugs than anywhere else globally

The root of the problem is a patent system that allows pharma companies to keep out competition and keep prices sky high

India is patently way behind on 5G

Policy blocks and poor vision have held up 5G in India, while China’s breakthroughs are helping to set global standards

The problem for biosimilars

Reliance Life Sciences won a case against Roche, 4 years after the MNC sued to stave off challenge to a hit breast cancer drug

Patent Prosecution Highway: The fast track to disaster

India's decision to start one for Japanese firms could open the tollgates to hasty approvals

Effect of Brexit on unitary patents

The UK’s divorce from Europe will reduce IP protection and may result in an increase in the cost of protection of IP rights on the continent

Power shoe

Apart from fitness there is another good reason one should walk: charging mobile phone. Mandar Tulankar, an engineering student in Nagpur, has …

A dose of patent power

In this GATT era, Indian drugs and pharmaceutical scientists have belatedly begun to focus on drug, rather than on process, development

Rice goes against the grain

An Asian staple for over a millennium, rice has become important enough for the North to start raiding and patenting strains

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New space glue

Unlike other adhesives it becomes stickier in dry environments

Patent applied for protein gene

Onco-mouse raises hackles

Neemm - manim, what else

The brouhaha about neern patents gets a forceful rebuttal

Inviting danger?

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