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...

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

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...

"Simple waiving of patents for vaccines is not enough for increased and free availability of Vaccines in India,” it said in a statement.The...

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

“Covid-19 is a public health emergency and the government is obligated to issue an order of government authorisation under Section 100 or a...

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

US pharma industry has expressed concern over deteriorating intellectual property environment in India, alleging that patent rights are unr...

Two young Indian lawyers today bagged the prestigious Antitrust Writing Award for their article on "compulsary licensing in India".

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...

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

The decision to allow Natco Pharma to sell Bayer's patented cancer drug Nexavar has divided the pharmaceutical industry.

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