Every geographical region has its name and fame. Mostly the qualities and characteristics of certain goods attributable to some geographical locations and reputable to “as produce of certain region” come under
Geographical Indications (GI). It is an emerging trend in Intellectual Property Rights. This review provides an overview of the past and current scenario of Geographical Indications in India with its challenges. It also

This new policy released by the Government of Tamil Nadu is designed to facilitate new biotech companies to come to the state by creating an enabling environment. Read the text.

The investigation will seek to analyse India's Intellectual Property Rights regime from 2003

On a strong request from American legislators and business chambers, the US International Trade Commission (USITC) has initiated an investigation on Indian trade, investment and industrial policies, for which it began a two-day hearing on Wednesday.

Industry says US violating norms

The government on Tuesday said it hadn’t violated global trading norms under the World Trade Organization (WTO), even as the US filed a second case against India on the second phase of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM).

Despite large gains in health over the past few decades, the distribution of health risks worldwide remains extremely and unacceptably uneven says the Lancet–University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for Health.

The weekly digest of important reports, research, policy documents, regulations, studies, court cases, protests,conflicts, initiatives, photos, data, statistics, infographics, presentations on the India Environment Portal, 25-31 January 2014.

As the effective application of new technologies has become increasingly important to most nations’ economic growth and development, the significance of intellectual property (IP) rights has also increased.

India has been ranked at the bottom of 25 countries in terms of protection and enforcement of intellectual property practices in this global report published by US Chamber of Commerce report.

More than five years after the Forest Rights Act, 2006, was implemented in the country, Union minister for tribal affairs V Kishore Chandra Deo said its execution was slow.

“The implementation of the act is the responsibility of the state governments which I found to be rather slow and tardy,” Deo said.

Developing Asian countries are strengthening their intellectual property rights regime as they themselves become producers of intellectual property. At the same time, developing Asia has attracted large amounts of foreign direct investment and this trend is expected to continue in light of the region’s strong growth prospects.

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