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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The impact of TRIPS on innovation and exports: a case study of the pharmaceutical industry in India
<p>Currently, there is a debate on what impact the implementation of the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) in India would have on its pharmaceutical industry and health care.
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Ensuring a development-friendly WTO
The Doha Round negotiations, formally named the Doha Development Agenda, continue to founder. While agriculture negotiations have dominated public discussion, the critical obstacle to conclusion of the round is the failure of negotiations so far to deliver on developing country needs. Feb 2008
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Trials and TRIPS-ulations: Indian patent law and Novartis ag v. Union of India
When pharmaceutical company Novartis challenged the rejection of its patent application for the leukemia drug Gleevec in Novartis AG v. Union of India, it became the first major legal challenge to India’s
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EU court asks Microsoft to fall in line
europe's second highest court has come down heavily on software giant Microsoft. In a landmark judgment on September 17, eu's Court of First Instance backed a 2004 decision to fine Microsoft and
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Intellectual property rights, biodiversity and traditional knowledge
This report starts with a brief account of different types of IPRs, including a brief overview of the WTO TRIPs agreement. It focuses on biodiversity and relationship with the IPR regime.
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Geographical indications and biodiversity in the Western Ghats, India
A geographical indication (GI) is a form of protection highlighted in the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement of the World Trade Organization (WTO). It protects intangible
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Non profit diseases
There is a logic to the idea of neglected diseases. Historically the diseases poor people get largely in the poorer parts of the world haven t got enough attention from policy makers in national governments and multilateral agencies precisely because they
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Mind your language Intellectual property police could be lurking with intent
going by recent developments in the world of intellectual property disputes, it appears that being extremely cautious while dipping into one's lexicographical reservoir will not qualify as a form of
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Amul loses its sugar free market
in an interim injunction on April 3, 2007, the Delhi High Court stayed the sale of Amul's new sugar-free ice cream until May 3. This came in response to a case filed by Ahmedabad-based drug and
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Protests against Abbott laboratory in Bangkok
thailand's capital Bangkok witnessed protests outside the office of us multinational Abbott Laboratories on March 14, 2007. A day before, the company had withdrawn applications to register seven new