The big multinational biotech companies can grant or deny the legal use of biological information due to which independent research organizations usually suffer. Patent restriction debate has escalated for past few years. Independent organizations like Bios has successfully dented the monopoly of big firms. Dr. Richard Jefferson talks to Newsclick about the issue.

A federal appeals court ordered Microsoft Corp. to stop selling its Word program in January and pay a Canadian software company $290 million for violating a patent, upholding the judgment of a lower court.