What the Supreme Court told us this year

From Rafale relief to heat on realtors, 10 landmark Supreme Court judgments in 2018.M J Antony reports. IMAGE: India's Supreme Court. Rafale relief On the last working day of the year, the Supreme......

Covid Vaccine IP: How Big Pharma lobbied against India

Communications between the USTR and the world's most powerful pharmaceutical and trade lobbying groups reveal that many raised concerns about India's push to exempt Covid vaccines from intellectual......

India's relations with the US must not be one-sided

'It is in the interest of both sides that the visit is seen as being successful. Both sides have invested considerable political capital in it.' 'This rapid exchange of visits and the decisions......

Exclusive! US Ambassador Rich Verma speaks to Rediff!

'I am propelled each day by the thought of my parents and what they went through -- the hard work, the struggles, the risks that they took -- so that I could do something like this...' 'It was the......

A stringent patent rule is latest hurdle for India-UK free trade agreement

Negotiations for a trade deal between India and the UK have run into fresh controversy, after the proposals under a leaked chapter of the deal on intellectual property (IP) are believed to put......

US leaders to woo Indian industry amid trade spat

Amid mounting tensions between both countries, senior US leaders are arriving in New Delhi on Monday with several American business heads in an effort to woo Indian industry, even as the threat of......

Not facing any significant IPR challenges in India: Abbott

American pharmaceuticals giant Abbott has told the US government that it is not facing any significant challenge with respect to intellectual property rights, as is being alleged by a section of......

Novartis has 219 patents in India

India’s intent to respect intellectual property may have drawn international criticism following the Supreme Court’s decision on Glivec, but facts point at a different story.After Swiss......