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Patenting fee raised

Wind beneath my hood?

New patent report

Basmati patent

No copycats

Plust friction

Soul searching

IPRs lead to shoddy research, admits world's oldest scientific academy

Patent over AIDS drug-yielding tree

Patent injustice

Commercial interests profit from unprotected artisanal knowledges

Vexed issue

Verdict on patents on life forms throws up posers

Roche relents

The patent holder of bird flu drug agrees to talk on generics

A patent row

Can the public sector take responsibility to develop drugs for neglected diseases?

Why do judges need to be ‘sensitised’?

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

Revoked!

The cancellation of a US firm's rights on a method to genetically engineer cotton has brought weaknesses in India's patent system into focus

Patent paradox

Developing countries may get trapped by the brazen and unabashedly faulty bio-patenting model that a US firm is flaunting

The cell snatchers

And now it is the turn for human cells to be patented on the sly by scientific vampires', as shows the bizarre case of a Hagahai tribal male

Suicidal growth

The debate over 'terminator technology' takes a new turn with the discovery of 36 sterility patent claims by public and private institutes the …

Farmer's right

A new draft of the Union for Protection of New Plants Varieties protects the rights of the farmers

Medicines Pool Swirls

Drug companies are slowly joining the UN effort to offer life-saving patented medicines to poor countries but the terms are sometimes restrictive

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

Bucket that washes

Cheap way to wash clothes using enzymes