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NEW DELHI, Jan 29: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday that domestic patent filings have outscored the country’s foreign patent filings as he expressed confidence that India’s dream of “techade” will be fulfilled on the strength of its innovators.This underscores the country’s increasing scientific capabilities, he said in ...

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Uma Bharti has said her party does not “hold patents” on Lord Ram, Hanuman or the Hindu religion and anybody can have faith in them, but “our faith is beyond political gains”. In a statement issued on Friday, the former Madhya Pradesh chief ...

Looking to nature for inspiration, drug research, genetically modified crops or other products is nothing new — research groups and major corporations do it all the time. But discoveries based on traditional Indigenous knowledge or the wealth of biodiversity in developing countries can end up being exported and patented without ...

In May, India and South Africa called on the World Trade Organization (WTO) to temporarily waive intellectual property (IP) rules related to COVID-19 vaccines, medicines, diagnostics and other technologies. The draft was co-sponsored by more than 60 countries that had warmed up to the idea. It was initially proposed ...

By now you’ve heard that the Biden administration’s attempt to waive drug company patents will make virtually no difference to poor countries fighting the Covid pandemic. Oddly, you’ve heard it from both supporters and opponents of his action.It won’t improve vaccine makers’ incentive to maximize production; they have every ...

GENEVAThe World Trade Organization chief Thursday “warmly” welcomed the US’ readiness to engage in a temporary intellectual property agreements waiver to help in combating COVID-19 and hailed the decision by India and South African to revise a WTO proposal on this.WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala issued a statement the day ...

GENEVA The World Health Organization on Thursday praised the US for backing a temporary waiver of intellectual property rights on COVID-19 vaccines.Washington’s decision, however, also seems to have its detractors, with a representative body of global research-based pharmaceutical companies and associations terming it “disappointing.”Soon after the US signaled on ...

#Pakistan News World leaders and experts say sharing vaccine know-how is the best chance to fight the pandemic. But the industry disagrees. More than 100 Nobel laureates and dozens of prominent figures including former leaders of the UK and France have called on US President Joe Biden to support ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—A group of developing countries, led by South Africa and India, say they will press at the World Trade Organization this week to free Covid-19 vaccines from patent protections so they can be more accessible and affordable for poor countries. The pandemic requires a temporary suspension of the ...

A group of developing countries, backed by United Nations agencies and activist groups, is pushing to limit patent protections for Covid-19 vaccines being tested by some of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies so that inexpensive copies can be produced for poorer nations. South Africa, Ghana, Senegal, Pakistan and others ...