Counterfeiters are flooding the Indian market with impure silver, exploiting rising prices and demand. Refiners are urging mandatory hallma...

Pune Police have clarified that no city-wide curfew is in effect, debunking social media rumors of a 14-day lockdown. Officials stated that...

The Gujarat Food Safety Department seized more than 3,500 kilograms of allegedly adulterated fennel seeds from Ganapati Cleaning Factory in...

India is a major global supplier of affordable generic medicines. The United States continues to pressure India regarding intellectual prop...

Dubai has removed the minimum property purchase value for sole owners seeking a two-year real estate investor residency visa. For jointly o...

India's ability to use compulsory licensing remains unrestricted by the India-UK free trade agreement. This vital tool for accessing life-s...

Concerns are mounting in India over the UK-India Free Trade Agreement's potential impact on access to affordable medicines. Experts fear th...

An official clarified that the India-UK free trade agreement doesn't weaken India's power to issue compulsory licenses or add new requireme...

India's free trade agreement with the UK includes clauses on intellectual property. These clauses may limit India's ability to issue compul...

Niti Aayog Member V K Paul, the Chair of the National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for Covid-19 (NEGVAC), noted that technology t...

“Introduction of the competition is the best way to lower the prices. Patent protection is the major barrier to the generic production of t...

A compulsory license can be invoked by a national government to allow someone else to produce a patented product or process without the con...

A government panel's proposal to link the price of patented drugs to per capita income is likely to shut out the option of compulsory licen...

Amid concerns that more domestic pharma companies could seek compulsory licenses to replicate patented drugs, the government said no such a...

We have mostly targeted unaffordable life saving drugs which are either unavailable or in-adequately available at an exorbitant cost. These...

The CL on sorafenib does not only help cancer patients, it also is a step towards building domestic manufacturing capacity and knowhow in a...

ET explains Compulsory Licensing, a provision that allows governments to override Patent rights