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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Should life forms be patented globally?
Patents are monopoly rights granted to the inventors to protect their economic interests. But this becomes complicated when the patent is applied to life forms on a global scale.
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Differing views
Environment ministry guidelines state that many of the adverse impacts of thermal plants can be foreseen and minimised through judicious siting, preventive and control
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Hot wealth
Microbes can spelifortunes and not alwaysfor their discoverers
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Which way out?
Industry and people s rights organisations in India are at loggerheads over the shaping of the biodiversity bill and amendments to the existing patent act
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Public health over profits
However, the Doha declaration does not take a decision on whether countries with insufficient or no manufacturing capacities in the pharmaceutical sector will be allowed to import generic drugs to
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MONEYMAKERS
* PATENT wars are heating up. British drug manufacturer Glaxo has won one patents case against a Canadian manufacturer, but faces a second against another. Both claim Glaxo's products -- stable and
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Saprophyte abundance
Major fungi collection centres in India, include the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, Punjab University, Chandigarh, Madras University, Chennai, Lucknow University, Uttar
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Fair farming
The European Union buckles under the pressure of the developing countries to reduce agricultural subsidies
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Seeds of monopoly
A US firm's patent application on soyabean seeds harves fear rivals
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Treacherous Syngenta
The world s third largest seed company files patents for public funded rice research