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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Protection of geographical indications: The Indian experience
From time immemorial, like most peoples of the ancient world, Indians have referred to products by the names of their places of origin. They have always known that goods from certain regions have distinct qualities and characteristics, but formal protection for such products is relatively recent.
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Intellectual Property Rights spark debate in climate talks
An August negotiating session on the United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention in Bonn ignited some interesting, albeit expected, sparks around the subject of intellectual property rights.
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Emerging Asia contribution on issues of technology for Copenhagen
This discussion paper presents some early findings from the study on Emerging Asia contribution on issues of technology for Copenhagen. It is part of an ongoing research and dialogue among five key Asian developing countries, namely China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. The objective is to contribute to the forthcoming UNFCCC
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Free trade will bind India
30 agreements to be signed; they violate public interest say activists the seventh round of free trade negotiations between India and EU held at Brussels in mid-July ended in a deadlock after the negotiators disagreed on the modalities of the agreement. Fresh talks will be held in November to thresh out details of the free trade agreement (fta) to ease movement of goods and open up
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Technology transfer to China to address climate change mitigation
This paper analyzes whether and how transfer of climate mitigation technologies to China occurs, by studying cases of seven technologies that are at the stage of deployment or diffusion. Most of these technologies were already transferred to China in terms of both technology adoption and local production.
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Do seed companies control GM crop research?
Scientists must ask corporations for permission before publishing independent research on genetically modified crops. That restriction must end. (Editorial)
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Intellectual Property Rights: Excluding other rights of other people
This article interrogates the claims of intellectual property to be a right. Drawing on the political theory of rights, it argues that information, ideas and knowledge fail to meet the basic test of rights and intellectual property right prevents those who do not own it from accessing and exercising their own diverse rights.
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Farmers being apprised of Intellectual Property Rights
Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) has established a technology marketing and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) cell for creating awareness about IPR and Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Act (PPV&FRA) among farmers.
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Novartis not ready to give up on Glivec
To Challenge Intellectual Property Appellate Board Verdict Rejecting Its Patent Plea For Cancer Drug Nina Mehta MUMBAI THE Indian subsidiary of Swiss drugmaker Novartis will challenge a decision by the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) that said its cancer drug Glivec was not patentable.
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Evergreening A controversial issue in pharma milieu
A patent is an exclusive right awarded by the intellectual property (IP) authority of a state to an inventor or his assignee for a limited period of time in lieu of disclosure of an invention for the benefit of mankind. In recent times, it has become a practice by a number of innovator companies to extend the patent term of their innovative molecules to maintain market dominance.