The world's largest seller of pharmaceuticals, Glaxo Wellcome of UK, lost the latest round of a protracted legal battle in the US. A North Carolina court ruling on July 5 gave the green signal to

the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (csir) has objected to a patent granted by the American patent and trade marks office. The patent obtained by Suman K Das and Hari Har P Cohly of

An American company appropriates the name 'basmati' as its own, and the contentious issue of patents and protection comes to the fore once again

The 32nd US patent on neem was give to FMC Corporation of Philadelphia. It is the corporation's second patent titled, "Combinations of neem seed extract and bifenthrin for control of

AS FAR as statistical particulars go, the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (w-ipo), has come up with an interesting detail. It received its 250,000th

The mad scramble for patenting the magic malaria antidote is seemingly resulting in dishonesty and plagiarism, while Onges, the actual knowledge providers, wait and watch, helplessly