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 proposed by the Central Government, anchored on section 159 of the Patents Act, 1970. The government seeks to amend the …
THE financial meltdown may be history, but its effects continue to haunt, especially when it comes to corporate innovations. A case in point is the dip in the number of patent filings in India in 2009-10. According to the Controller General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks, the number of …
CEO Says Pharma Major Plans To Invest Rs 430 Cr To Develop Vaccines Here GLAXOSMITHKLINE (GSK) would cut retail prices in India to cater to the lower-income segment besides pumping in Rs 430 crore to develop vaccines from its local facilities, according to Andrew Witty, global CEO of the world
There is an ongoing debate about the rationality of price controls in a regime where drugs can be manufactured through alternative processes as was the case in India before 2005. In a regime of only process patents, competition was expected to bring prices down. However, even when there was an …
A Swedish entrepreneur is trying to market and sell a biodegradable plastic bag that acts as a single-use toilet for urban slums in the developing world. Once used, the bag can be knotted and buried, and a layer of urea crystals breaks down the waste into fertilizer, killing off disease-producing …
Gokul Chandrasekar | Go BIODIVERSITY BIO is in the air: 2010 is being observed as its interna- tional year and an international tio biodiversity summit will be held bi in Nagoya in October. A rising concern among activ- ist ists is biopiracy: situations where cor corporations from the developed wo …
India has played a crucial role in making essential medicines available and affordable for patients in the developing world through generic drugs. This has been possible by linking India’s patent policies and laws to public interest. Similarly, policies that align public funded R&D in India with public health have the …
Order of the Calcutta High Court in the matter of Hindustan Unilever Limited Vs Procter and Gamble Home Products Limited dated 15/02/2010 regarding advertisement and telecasting of the television commercials which disparage the goods of the petitioner (Hindustan Unilever Limited). The case of the petitioner is that by telecasting television …
THE DELHI High Court on Monday referred six drug patent cases to the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB), the apex government body to hear such disputes. This could set a precedent for all future appeals regarding `pre-grant
This paper uses the EPO/OECD World Patent Statistical Database (PATSTAT) to provide a quantitative description of the geographic distribution of inventions in thirteen climate mitigation technologies since 1978 and their international diffusion on a global scale. Statistics suggest that innovation has mostly been driven by energy prices until 1990. Since …
Agriculture in India has been a part of its rich historical tradition going back thousands of years. The fact that those who till the land and make India a leading agricultural country, the farmers, need certain protection of rights needs, to be looked into. Their efforts in conservation, improvement and …
Researchers Call It Useless, Abusable Piece Of Legislation Thousands of scientists working in government-supported research institutes and labs in India are seething over a proposed law which makes it mandatory to patent all new innovations generated by public-funded research. Called the Protection and Utilisation of Public Funded Intellectual Property Bill, …
PB Jayakumar / Mumbai January 11, 2010, 0:21 IST Swiss drug manufacturer Novartis AG has been granted patent protection in India for Nilotinib, a superior version of blood cancer drug Gleevec (imatinib mesylate). It has been engaged in a legal battle with the government on the latter
Fate of Nagoya hanging in balance as developed nations resist legal framework for use of biological resources AN INTERNATIONAL protocol on biodiversity is set to become the new bone of contention between the developed and developing countries. The rich countries are opposing an international legal framework for use of biological …
As part of its initiative under the International Year of Biodiversity (IYB), India has chalked out an 11-point goal to achieve the 2010 bio-diversity targets. Protection of world-famous one-horned rhino is set out as one of the goals. Addressing a press conference, Union Minister of State for Environment and Forest …
The question of protecting intellectual property rights by academic inventors was never seriously contemplated until the introduction of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980 in the US. The Act allowed universities to retain patent rights over inventions arising out of federally-funded research and to license those patents exclusively or nonexclusively at …
The fi rst report of the Mashelkar Committee on patent issues was accused of plagiarism and the committee was asked by the government to rexamine its recommendations. The second report of this committee poses a different set of problems. This article argues that the revised recommendations are not warranted by …
