New Delhi has always maintained that its IPR regime is fully compliant with all international laws.
The United States has decided to appoint a treasury attache and an attache for intellectual property rights in India. The US will also appoint a special official to deal with the aviation sector.
The domestic pharmaceutical industry and non-government organisations are up in arms against the first ever Indo-US tie-up on intellectual property rights
A million applicants are in queue for 1,20,000 visas.
India has strong legislation on Intellectual Property Rights but the country still lacks adequate enforcement measures to check leakages such as piracy, a Microsoft official has said.
The United States wants India to do more in developing a world-class infrastructure, energy security, creation of true national markets and protection of intellectual property rights to attract American investments.
This is a high-stakes strategic conflict between a power which wants to preserve the status quo in its favour and one which wants to usurp that throne. The rest is all theatre, says Harsh V Pant.
Nobex, after running out of money last year, had filed for bankruptcy.
Dispute over IPR was a bone of contention in bilateral ties till a couple of months ago.
Existing trade deals, especially the 2009 pact with the Asean bloc, have been panned by the Centre for not boosting exports but flooding the domestic market with cheap imports. Subsequently, New Delhi has called for reviewing FTAs with Japan and South Korea. Going by that, a trade deal with the US is unlikely to be beneficial, say experts.
As the US fights China on issues of intellectual property at the World Trade Organization, India asked Washington on Friday to address the issue of easy availability of pirated Indian films and music in the American market.
India is publishing a bulky encyclopaedia, running into 30 million pages, which would extensively cover its vast traditional knowledge as part of efforts to keep out Intellectual Property invaders from patenting its indigenous wealth.
Leading bio-technology company Biocon Ltd on Monday said its research development partner, Nobex Corporation, has filed for bankruptcy in the US.
One indictment accuses Huawei of trying to steal trade secrets from T-Mobile, and of promising bonuses to employees who collected confidential information on competitors. A second indictment claims the company worked to skirt US sanctions on Iran.
Manmohan-Putin to ink four aggreements in Moscow
Fuelled by growing markets and a liberalised economy, the Indian biotech industry is set to witness an exponential growth with an estimated turnover of $4,500 million by 2010.
The warring promoters of FMCG major Britannia - the Wadias and the French dairy giant Danone - are looking at sorting out intellectual property rights issues
The country has the opportunity of creating new business models, products and services for the poor not just at home, but for countries in Africa and Latin America.
While the innovators see data protection as an essential step to spur R&D, generics deem it as ploy to ensure monopoly by yet another name.
As Gates plans his transition, Ray Ozzie (founder of Lotus Notes and Groove Virtual Office) has assumed the position of chief software architect and Craig Mundie has taken the new title of chief research and strategy officer.
The US will help India set up a body similar to the Food and Drug Administration, to certify clinical trials for automatic acceptance in the US market
It was reported in a section of the media that TBT had filed a suit in June in a New York court against Infosys BPO.
Software major Infosys on Thursday said it would spend A$ 800,000 over four years in Australia's Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre (Smart Internet) for conducting research and development in emerging technology areas.
Concerned over attempts to monopolise its traditional knowledge, India on Tuesday asked the United States to tighten its Intellectual Property Rights regime and put in place proper disclosure norms for companies filing for patents.
A model train, on show at the Sixth Shanghai International Industry Fair, attracted many professional visitors.
The US-India CEO Forum has come out with a far-reaching reform agenda, including opening up of retail sector and raising FDI caps in insurance, banking, print media and broadcasting.
In 2004, the patent office in India received around 20,000 patent filings, which included resident and non-resident patent applications, according to a report released by the World Intellectual Property Organisation.
