Gifts of the non-patenters

Inventors like Tim Berners-Lee didn't apply for patents on their innovations, leaving enduring benefits for all of us

Winds of changes

Indian industrialists and scientists want the country's property rights to be "strengthened", but the powerful drugs industry wants to maintain …

Beyond 'intelligence'

BEYOND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: TOWARDS TRADITIONAL RESOURCE RIGHTS FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES· Darrell A Posey and Graham …

It's all in the name

Thai farmers and activists object to a US company's use of the name Jasmati for a rice variety

Cooking up mustard

This genetically modified plant is a marker of discontent

Playing knowledge games

Patent solution

Digital library to store data collected from ancient texts on medicinal properties of plants

Treacherous Syngenta

The world's third largest seed company files patents for public-funded rice research

It will be months before there is consensus over COVID-19 vaccine patents: Experts

The United States has supported a temporary waiver on COVID-19 vaccine patents; but not all is hunky-dory, say experts

D Srinivasa Reddy takes over as Director CSIR-IICT

Reddy will also hold the additional charge of the post of director of CSIR-IIIM, Jammu and director, CSIR-CDRI, Lucknow

Beware of a deal with Trump

As the US president comes visiting to India there is worry about the demands he will make on intellectual property

India denies Gilead patent for hepatitis C drug, sofosbuvir

Companies that have not signed any licence agreement with US pharma giant are now free to produce generic versions of the drug

Which way out?

Industry and people's rights organisations in India are at loggerheads over the shaping of the biodiversity bill and amendments to the existing …

Winning laurels

A new method for discovering important chemicals that could damage the nervous system gains a US patent for its inventors

The madness of software patents

India’s patent law excludes software per se, yet over a thousand patents have been granted

'There is a conflict in gene patenting in India and abroad'

ASIS DUTTA, a senior biologist at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, is the first Indian scientist to have applied for a gene patent in …

America issues patents

Making a case

The Patent Bill gives oral traditions document status

PATENTS ACT

ORDER ON BIOTECHNOLOGY

Fighting biopiracy

WTO and drugs

What has Doha done to help poor nations meet their drug needs?

Tradition incorporated

Patents are welcome only if the traditional rights of people are protected

Leaving their mark

Herbal cures to fight kala azar