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Pavan Kulkarni
Lack of Political Will and IPR Rules Stand in the Way of Mass Vaccination for COVID-19
31 Mar 2021
A proposal made by India and South Africa in October last year to waive certain Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of COVID vaccines has gained massive support across the world. Despite its potential…
Ishupal Singh Kang
How Long Must Poorer Nations Wait for Access to Covid Vaccine?
07 Jan 2021
For all the talk about vaccines being a global public good, industrialised nations are dragging their feet on an arrangement proposed by South Africa and India at the WTO for equitable and widespread…
Shinzani Jain
Is it Enough to Focus on Anti-trust?
18 Nov 2020
This is the second part of the two-part report that examines the approach of the United States House Antitrust Subcommittee in its investigations of digital platform giants – Apple, Amazon, Google
Justice Prabha Sridevan
Patent and Patient Rights in COVID-19: Is the Right to Exclusivity a Hamlet Question?
09 Oct 2020
Today the judicial authority may be faced with balancing patent rights and patients’ rights or right to life.
Pavan Kulkarni
RCEP: As Deadline Looms, Trade Unions Call Out Dangerous Causes
19 Oct 2019
Negotiators representing 16 countries have been tasked with arriving at an agreement on the controversial Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership by October 19 but trade unions say the deal has…
Prabir Purkayastha
Global Capital, Digital Monopolies and New Forms of Enclosure
15 Jun 2019
The sharing economy is the enclosure of personal property by digital monopolies and creating a new form of casual labour.
Prabhat Patnaik
Indo-US Trade Relations in Times of Deficient Demand
18 May 2019
Faced with fall in domestic activity and rise in external indebtedness, the new US strategy is to coax countries like India to ‘voluntarily’ accept its protectionist policies.
Yogesh S
India’s Production of Affordable Generic Drugs is Under Attack by the United States of America
27 Apr 2019
The “special 301 report” of the United States Trade Representative not only “violates the integrity and legitimacy of the system of legal rights and flexibilities created by the TRIPs Agreement”, but…
Anish R M
US And China Close To a Deal, But Who Won The Trade War?
28 Feb 2019
The Trump administration’s premature jubilation over the new trade deal should not be taken at face value, since the existing terms of trade are set to remain largely unchanged.
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India-US Joint Working Group on IPR
05 Nov 2014
21 October 2014