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Fading momentum?
10 May 2022 6:57 PM ISTIndian and South African interests have diverged; India is not in desperate need of vaccines anymore and doesn’t want to rock the boat
A daring demand
6 May 2022 8:27 PM ISTHealth advocates are asking Washington to use laws that allow patent override on drugs developed with public funds
Perfidious 'compromise'
18 April 2022 8:24 PM ISTTough new conditions emerge in the compromise deal to ease WTO intellectual property barriers related to production of COVID-19 medical tools
A crisis measure?
14 April 2022 6:30 PM ISTBy using IP rights as a tool of war, Russia is taking a leaf out of the US' book to seize copyright and patents owned by 'unfriendly' countries
Falling by the wayside
15 Feb 2022 8:46 PM ISTNew Delhi has not backed its WTO proposal to suspend intellectual property rights on COVID-19 pharma products with robust action
Cuba's exemplary 'revolution'
1 Feb 2022 8:56 PM ISTPunching way above its weight, the tiny nation has developed five vaccines, and offers hope of vaccine equity across the world
A bizarre demand?
23 Nov 2021 8:09 PM ISTThe application for securing GI tag for Banarasi paan appears to be misplaced, and could potentially lead to controversies
Big Pharma has the answers?
28 Sept 2021 5:17 PM ISTIFPMA, 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...
Grotesque profits
7 Sept 2021 7:53 PM ISTA greed-driven vaccine market, backed by rich countries’ frivolous rush for booster doses, has deprived poor countries of their share of jabs
India's patent law
18 March 2019 10:16 PM ISTOpposition to the new patent claims on the Johnson & Johnson drug is a test of how well the rules against evergreening are working
The zero budget farming discord
20 Nov 2018 10:02 PM ISTThere is unease over the crusader of natural farming, Subhash Palekar, for renaming the technique after himself
Patient before corporate profits
21 Oct 2018 8:46 PM ISTAs prices of the life-saving drugs skyrocket, people from diverse fields are getting together to fight Big Pharma