Draft Patents (Amendment), Rules, 2023
The Ministry of Commerce and Industry, under the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, has introduced draft amendments to the Patents Rules, 2003. These drafts detail various changes
Patents
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Rejection of Dunkel proposals is a farce
Observers say the government's rejection of the Dunkel proposals on seed patenting is just an eyewash.
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India's game plan on GATT: Will it work?
The government says there are opportunities to improve the Dunkel packager but not all are convinced that it is trying hard enough. Environmentalists and farmers fear the country may wind up having to accept a fait accompli.
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Intelectual property rights: The varios views
Indian government"s concerns with theDunkel draft Commerce ministry"s comments: What the critics say: If the facility for process palents,
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The Brussels draft versus the Dunkel draft
Developing countries are concerned by the silent disappearance of some and the qver-simplificalion of other provisions of the Brussels Draft, 1990 -the first draft agreement
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Targeting the Third World's-Yulnerability
THE DUNKEL draft on the renegotiated GATT is finally becoming a public concern in India and farmers are taking the issue to the streets. Several industrial sectors, too, have expressed concern
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The patents business
INDIANS still do not have the culture of seeking patents. Over the last 15 years, foreigners have obtained two to three times more patents in India every year than Indians. In 1989-90, Indians held
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Warring tomatoes
Imperial Chemical Industries of England and Calgene of the USA are at war over who owns the patent rights to a "fresh" tomato. Both companies have developed a genetically improved, longer-lasting,
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Mass movement against Dunkel draft
Forty five bodies have joined hands to mobilise protest campaigns against changes in laws which will comply with GATT proposals for a new economic regime
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Patent fights
FOR once the Japanese are running scared from the Americans. Minolta, the camera manufacturer, recently coughed up US $127.5 million to Honeywell, the US controls technology group, which had
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Seed monopolists increasingly gaining market control
<p>This research examines how patent applications and the granting of patents developed at the European Patent Office in 2010. It also examines how the EPO has dealt with other applications for patents on conventionally bred plants following the decision on the broccoli patent. The report shows a steadily increasing number of patent applications and patents granted at the Patent Office.