Patents

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 proposed by the Central Government, anchored on section 159 of the Patents Act, 1970. The government seeks to amend the …

Beginning a new term

theburgeoning Indian seed industry saw a new entrant on October 22, 2005

Hong Kong: a beginning?

The World Trade Organization's (wto) ministerial conference

Roche relents

the row over licensing of avian flu drug Tamiflu, has given a glimpse of how the issue of access to drugs will be handled, in future public health emergencies. The Swiss pharma major, Roche, which has properietory rights over the drugs, had finally agreed to talk with generic drug manufacturers …

A patent row

rochevs. Ranbaxy. North vs. South. David vs. Goliath. This is how the media has presented the patent row between Roche and Indian generics manufacturers over the production of the drug Tamiflu, one of only two known treatments for avian flu, a disease that kills over half of the people it …

Treacherous Syngenta

On September 15, 2005 representatives of Syngenta disclosed to Down To Earth the company's plans to patent a few thousand gene sequences of the rice (Oryza sativa) genome. Further investigations revealed that the world's third largest seed company has filed at least 15 applications to secure patents over the rice …

Patently bad drafting

The debate over a strong patents legislation has been characterised by sharply polarised positions. The arguments have been repeated ad nauseam since the Uruguay Round agreements entered into force on 1 January 1995

Biopiracy s bitter defeat

India's traditional wisdom was recently upheld with the country winning a tussle over neem patent. On March 8, 2005, the European Patent Office (epo) dismissed an appeal against the repeal of a patent for making a neem -based fungicide granted jointly to the us Department of Agriculture and chemical multinational …

TRIPPED

Patent rites Patents get a makeover Santosh Rana has a type of blood cancer

Going desi

Generic versions: mainstay of the poor The issue of

New?

The ordinance does not do much more than the amended Indian Patents Act in defining what can or cannot be patented in the name of new, or inventive or capable of industrial application. While Indian law defines an invention as a

Swamped

To deal with product patents, India is spending more than Rs 100 crore to modernise its patent offices. Already in place: four modern offices, 175 trained patent examiners, besides digital and print material on prior art. However, this infrastructure is yet to be tested, while the database is also limited …

The Pill Bill

The reason all this becomes critical is that it ultimately affects the consumer

Protect the patient

But even with patents, governments can control prices to ensure that drugs are affordable by people. Governments across the world do this. In different ways. In India, the Drug Price Control Order regulates a certain number of drugs under price control. The Drug Policy of 1994 brought in the National …

Defining the essential

The National List of Essential Medicines 2003 consists of 354 drugs in 27 therapeutic categories. The purpose of such a list is to ensure that it's available within functioning health systems at all times in adequate quantities, in appropriate dosage forms and of assured quality. The list is based on …

Definitive changes

definition of invention • "A new product or process involving an inventive step and capable of industrial application • Inventive step means a feature that makes the invention not obvious to a person skilled in the art • Capable of industrial application, in relation to an invention, means that the …

Business models of the future?

India is a country hard to slot; neither rich nor poor, neither developing nor developed. This is best seen in the debate on patent protection in the country. One group of industry, which caters to the domestic markets and uses process patents to increase its market share, believes that the …

Unity in diversity

a meeting of the Convention on Biodiversity (cbd) will be held in February in Bangkok to discuss rules for international transfer of biological resources. In preparation, ministerial delegations of a group of developing countries called the Like Minded Megadiverse Countries (lmmc) met January 20-21 in New Delhi to develop a …

Patent over AIDS drug yielding tree

Samoa has sown the seeds of a bitter intellectual property rights battle in the Pacific region, claiming sole rights over a gene-sequence found in the mamala tree (Homalanthus nutans) used to make the aids and cancer drug prostratin. But the tree grows widely across the Pacific and has been used …

Monsanto loses wheat patent

Activists and farmers opposing patents on Indian agricultural products by the West have achieved rare victory. A patent on Indian wheat, held by multinational corporation Monsanto, has been revoked by the Munich-based European Patent Office (EPO). The EPO's decision is in response to a petition filed by three organisations

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