Creative India: tapping the full potential
India’s creative economy is large, but its untapped potential is even larger. This study provides the first reliable measure on the size of India’s creative economy, explores the many challenges faced
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
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N-trade code to leave room for biz outside bilateral pact
THE government may frame a policy for international civil nuclear commerce that will have provisions for trade with countries with which India doesn
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Court refers drug patent cases to IPAB: move may set new precedent
THE DELHI High Court on Monday referred six drug patent cases to the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB), the apex government body to hear such disputes. This could set a precedent for all future appeals regarding `pre-grant
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Interplay between climate and trade policies
International trade has become one of the pillars of the global economic system; an overlap between climate change policies and the multi-lateral trading system administered by the World Trade Organization (WTO) therefore seems inevitable. International trade affects climate change as it potentially increases economic activity that may in turn lead to increased greenhouse gas emissions.
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Technology transfer and IPRs
The Copenhagen Accord does mention a Copenhagen Green Climate Fund and a Technology Mechanism for technology development and transfer in support of action on adaptation and mitigation. However, it is silent on crucial aspects of both; perhaps those will be worked out in the negotiations to be conducted later.
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Technology transfer and intellectual property: A post-Copenhagen assessment
In the lead-up to the Copenhagen climate change meeting, technology transfer was - with emissions reductions and finance - one of the key sticking points. It was hoped that the conference would, at least, spell out elements of a
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Ecuador decrees new access to health policy
The Andean country has joined a growing number of developing nations in taking advantage of flexibilities in the WTO
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Trade and climate: Joined at the hip?
Two events of importance to sustainable development advocates took place at the close of the year 2009: the long-delayed WTO ministerial conference and the Copenhagen climate summit. How the world responds to climate change has significant implications for international trade. The Copenhagen Accord does not even mention two of the most contentious issues at stake here, i.e.
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Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Authority
<p>Agriculture in India has been a part of its rich historical tradition going back thousands of years. The fact that those who till the land and make India a leading agricultural country, the farmers, need certain protection of rights needs, to be looked into. Their efforts in conservation, improvement and preservation of various crops over the years have been commendable. </p>
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Scientists fume over new patent bill
Researchers Call It Useless, Abusable Piece Of Legislation Thousands of scientists working in government-supported research institutes and labs in India are seething over a proposed law which makes it mandatory to patent all new innovations generated by public-funded research.
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Patenting public-funded research for technology transfer
The question of protecting intellectual property rights by academic inventors was never seriously contemplated until the introduction of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980 in the US. The Act allowed universities to retain patent rights over inventions arising out of federally-funded research and to license those patents exclusively or nonexclusively at their discretion.