Knowledge commons and the future of capitalism
Following the recent Supreme Court judgment rejecting Novartis’ claim for a patent on a major cancer drug there has been impassioned debate about patents vs. patients and profits over people. Emotive...
View ArticleWhat to expect from the India-EU FTA
On April 11, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, Germany, to discuss collaborations between the two countries in education, science and technology, and climate change....
View ArticleIPR: ‘Developing countries need to be cautious’
The April 2013 ruling of the Supreme Court of India, dismissing the appeals filed by Novartis claiming a patent for its cancer treatment drug Glivec, has underscored the dilemmas surrounding the...
View ArticleIntellectual Property Rights: Innovation, Accessibility and Public Interest
Summary: The Supreme Court of India’s judgment in the Novartis case has intensified concerns and dilemmas surrounding the prevailing global intellectual property rights (IPR) regime. In reality, the...
View ArticleEconomic democracy
An explosion of material aspirations is posing new challenges to Indian democracy. Beneath all the outrage about crony capitalism, inept governance and absent jobs is an unrest that arises from a...
View ArticleCOP21: unspoken India-U.S. war
Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off India’s presence at COP21 on 30 November with bold plans that will shape geopolitics well beyond the Paris Summit. But the backroom talk in Paris still depicts...
View ArticleCan India allay Africa’s IPR fears?
Among the most telling examples of India’s soft power in Africa is the popularity of its low-cost generic medicines. But this may soon change if India buckles under pressure from the U.S. to overhaul...
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U.S.-China: trade war for trade pact
The recent United States-China trade deal, formally known as the ‘Economic and Trade Agreement between the United States of America and China’, signed on 15 January 2020, is a lengthy document. It is...
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