Young scientists in Kolkata make leather out of fish skin

College duo comes up with eco-friendly tanning process

Novartis loses patent battle

No hair-raising experience this

Sinking planks

Phytoplankton production could damage oceanic ecosystems

A fine balance

The bill keeps national interests intact and remains TRIPS compliant

Prescription for relief

News for farmers

Seminars promote patents

Cipla puts US law school on notice     

Deluge of foreign patent applications in India

Monsanto at the receiving end of Bt cotton pricing policy

Monsanto losing price war with state governments

Protests against Abbott laboratory in Bangkok

Donate patents

A bad example from the US

A public sector technology transfer bill focuses exclusively on patenting

Patents Vs Patients

WTO's conundrum: cheap drugs for poor countries or protecting North's business interests

The irrelevance of multilateralism

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

Indian company gets licence to manufacture and sell patented cancer drug

This is the first-ever compulsory licence given to a generic drug company

In short

Cut-and-paste patent report withdrawn

India rejects Microsoft's Office Open XML

A treaty to block cheaper drugs

Developed countries to use a geographical advantage to stop generics

Gene patent verdict is as good as it gets

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

Back where it belongs

India emerges victorious from a legal wrangle with the US over the patenting of neem

Traditional Indian medicinal practices now safe

Chirala saree weavers losing out to computer-aided designs

The scent that sells