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...

This is one of the great victories of global trade disputes that needs to be celebrated and commemorated. It is a victory made sweeter still because...

On the one side is the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), a behemoth of an economic bloc that accounts for 40 percent of the world’s GDP and...

For more than a decade now various state governments have tried several ways to control the pricing policy of agri-biotech giant Monsanto on its...

There is an uneasy interface between competition policy and patent law, an inherent tension between these regulations. While patent laws give the...

For years, there has been a guerrilla war on the patenting of software in India. While a clutch of organisations has been fighting against patenting...

Between a patent application on a candidate vaccine and its development as a sure-fire antidote to the disease lays a tricky terrain of technological...