The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
the us has rejected an amendment to the agreement on the trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (trips), which was recently proposed by a consortium of developing nations. The amendment was proposed by India, Brazil, Pakistan, Thailand, Tanzania, and later by China and Cuba. The consortium had wanted that the …
In the first week of December 2005, industry representatives, government officials, medical researchers and ngo delegates gathered in Delhi to find ways of "Living with trips'
http://www.focusweb.org North versus South With the privileged North calling the shots in global development policies, the view of South remains neglected. Keeping this in mind,
pharmaceuticals: The Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) regime was amended on December 6, 2005, to ensure patent protection for pharmaceutical products without, however, preventing people in poor countries from having access to medicines. But the production of cheaper varieties of protected drugs is subject to a cumbersome licensing procedure. …
The World Trade Organiation (wto) has extended the deadline for its 32-member Least Developed Countries (ldcs) to comply with the wto intellectual property (ip) regime until July 2013. The Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (trips) agreement, effective since 1995, had earlier given ldc s until January 2006 for …
union minister of commerce and industry Kamal Nath sent out a letter on July 25, 2005, to trade ministers of 31 countries, urging them to take a "sharper and more aggressive' stand on getting through an amendment to the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights agreement (trips) of the World …
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
In your book Copyrights and Copywrongs , you argue that copyright should be a matter of public policy and not pertain to intellectual property. Can you elaborate on that? Copyright in the literal sense is a property right. But it cannot be seen in the same way as rights over …
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 …
is this another intellectual property rights (iprs) wrangle? Environmentalists recently alerted the Indian authorities to a us-sponsored scientific mission meant to survey and collect catfish species in Kerala and the Northeast. They alleged that the study was being undertaken without the Union government's permission. M K Prasad of Karala Sastra …
Members of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) have agreed to back legal and policy options on the protection of traditional knowledge with a precise analysis of the implications of each option. They have also decided to develop an overview of policy objectives and core principles for the protection of …
In 1995many in India were outraged to learn that a university in the US was granted a patent to make and sell haldi (turmeric) for its wound healing properties. Patents are usually given to creations that are deemed
inventors worldwide have received a new year bonanza. Protecting their inventions will be easier now with the new rules ushered in by the world's apex body governing the protection of intellectual property rights, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (wipo). Not only will the new procedure save them time and money, …
The ongoing attempts to strengthen intellectual property protection regimes through the Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (trips) agreement, are choking knowledge transfers from the industrialised world to developing countries. And with private companies seeking control and monopoly over genes and cell lines, the world is fast moving towards scientific apartheid against …
Everybody keeps cribbing about the wto. What exactly is the problem with the institution? From the perspective of the South, the wto has three main problems. One, it is undemocratic and unpredictable. There are no formal processes of democratic decision-making, such as the majority rule. Decisions do not take place …
Most patents are held by Northern corporations and used primarily to control the market as a monopoly. The World Bank data on the number of patents recorded in 91 countries (categorised into those belonging to resident and non-resident applicants) shows that out of 3,125,603 patents recorded, 301,177
Under the Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (trips) Agreement of the World Trade Organization (wto), champagne is identified with the particular wine-producing region of France. Scotch whisky is similarly recognised as being purely Scottish. But products such as basmati rice, Darjeeling tea, Kolhapuri slippers and Kanchipuram silk saris
