The application for securing GI tag for Banarasi paan appears to be misplaced, and could potentially lead to controversies

IFPMA, the biopharma trade body, has made its claim clear: COVID-19 vaccine management should be left to a handful of companies, and all blame lies...

A greed-driven vaccine market, backed by rich countries’ frivolous rush for booster doses, has deprived poor countries of their share of jabs

Opposition to the new patent claims on the Johnson & Johnson drug is a test of how well the rules against evergreening are working

There is unease over the crusader of natural farming, Subhash Palekar, for renaming the technique after himself

As prices of the life-saving drugs skyrocket, people from diverse fields are getting together to fight Big Pharma

As Trump escalates trade war with China, the key question is what constitutes theft of intellectual property

States are competing to pile up Geographical Indication tags without studying the benefit to producers.

If ever India needed an explicit endorsement of its laws on intellectual property rights (IPRs) and their application in meeting public health...

There is a vast gulf between patents that are useful and those that are best described as ornamental. The first brings in revenue through licensing...

A sign that it needs to ramp up technological prowess.India's space programme provokes the predictable guns versus butter debate that surrounds any...

Those who belong to clubs, the experienced ones, know that membership is usually a toss-up between prestige and perks. And, of course, there’s the...