Draft Patents (Amendment), Rules, 2023
The Ministry of Commerce and Industry, under the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, has introduced draft amendments to the Patents Rules, 2003. These drafts detail various changes
Patents
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The global partnership for development: Time to deliver
With only four years remaining in which to achieve the key targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), most of the world’s Heads of State and Government came to the United Nations in September
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Cancer drug has right to patent, Novartis tells Supreme Court
The final hearings have started at the Supreme Court regarding Swiss drug-major Novartis' blood cancer drug Glivec. The landmark case will have ramifications on the implementation of the amended Indian
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From polarization to convergence: need to mend the broken patent system
<p> For more than two hundred years, the world has discussed the issue of whether to continue the process of patenting or whether to do away with it. Developed countries remain polarized for various reasons
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Farm IP, enter WIPO
<p>Developing countries will now have to battle IP issues related to new agricultural technologies at WIPO instead of WTO.</p>
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Ruling Upholds Gene Patent in Cancer Test
In a closely watched case, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday that genes can be patented, overturning a lower court decision that had shocked the biotechnology industry. The Court of Appeals for
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3 from NCL win Young Scientist awards
Three scientists from the National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) in Pune, Amol Arvindrao Kulkarni, Dattatraya Dethe and Rahul Banerjee, have been selected for the Young Scientist Award 2011, instituted by the Council for Industrial and Scientific Research (CSIR). The award carries a cash prize and a citation and will be presented to them on September 26, CSIR Foundation Day, in New Delhi. Kulkar
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Medicines patent pool receives first licence for HIV drugs from major pharmaceutical company
<p><style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal;">Gilead Sciences has become the first pharmaceutical company to set up a licensing agreement with the recently-established Medicines Patent Pool (MPP), in a move aimed toward increasing access in developing countries to drugs that treat HIV and Hepatitis B.
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Home-grown jugaad set for patent cover
New Delhi: India
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Farmers rights under the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights Act of India
Independent India inherited a structure of landholdings characterised by heavy concentration of cultivable areas in the hands of relatively large absentee landowners, the excessive fragmentation of small