Announcement / News - 2003

 

NOVEMBER  NEWS

Govt plans to scrap pre-grant objection to patents

Sankara Nethralaya to collaborate with BARC

Seed makers' consortium in pact with NBRI for cotton knowhow

Sugandh' set to take on Thai Jasmine rice

Japan’s Drug Makers Resort To Overseas Development On Cost-benefit Ground

Natco gets DSIR award

China Launches Itself Into Big Three Orbit

 

OCTOBER  NEWS

HOW CURRY COMBATS CANCER

WTO Members agree on ways to boost LDC participation in services negotiations

HAL sees major spin-offs from AJT deal

Was `Golden Rice' known to Indian farmers centuries ago?

Four Indians are world's top 100 innovators
Intellectual Property Appellate Board to be set up in Chennai
Don't focus on US generics market alone, pharma cos told

The Internet Reborn

 

SEPTEMBER  NEWS

STMicro to expand Indian chip design unit

LCA goes supersonic

IITs' funding to be performance-linked

PharmaSTART™- SUPPORT FOR TRANSLATING AND ADVANCING RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY  

USDA To Have New Rules on Biocrops.

Patent law: procedural reforms on anvil

Fast-breeder reactors: obstacles take new form

India wants spl status to basmati on par with Scotch, champagne
Infosys bags global award
Oil palm sowing in AP rises
Seed units set for era of tie-ups: RaboIndia

 

AUGUST  NEWS

Himalaya puts credibility into herbal therapy

Monsanto does a RiceTec, patents Indian wheat line

Chinese firm to invest $100 mn in Bangalore centre

EU's GM food rules may ease standoff with US

PATENT BENDING

Cartagena protocol on bio-diversity to come into effect from Sept

Conventional breeding — Icrisat plans biotech-aided crop improvement group

Sustainable Growth: A Screening Tool

 

JULY  NEWS

Paragraph IV Drug Product Applications:  Generic Drug Patent Challenge Notifications

DuPont Textiles & Interiors Introduces New Patented Rubber Technologies for Sports Balls and Bicycle Tires
"The Biggest Thing in Tennis Balls Since the Color Yellow"

Method and apparatus for choosing a stock portfolio, based on patent indicators

Monsanto turning into gene supplier

The tech industry Is Big Blue the Next Big Thing?

The Soybeans Grown in Space on DuPont.com

Foreign tech pact norms liberalised

 

JUNE  NEWS

SARS Genome Sequenced and Published.

RRL-T bags award for `spicy' tech

Lemelson-MIT Prize To Inventor Leroy Hood

'Great pride for Indians'
Role of Private Enterprise and Intellectual Property in Chinese Innovation

Chinese S&T and the Challenge of WTO Accession

3 Indians among top 12 agri biotech pioneers

Award for PSG-STEP

4 centres picked for GM rice tech transfer — TN farm varsity among those identified
RIL, DuPont in R&D tie-up.

Simputer hits retail market.

Space tech to map basmati area spread.

Bhilai plant develops steel for warships.

 

MAY  NEWS

Country Wise Patenting Activity in USPTO.

Human Genome Project Finished

MOST Instructions for T/T and IPR.

IPR Appellate Board Getting into Operation.
On the Small Firm Contribution to Technical Change.
Chemistry Rated Top Enabler.
Software Exports to touch Rs 36,000 crores, Yet little back-up through patents!

Non-Exclusive Patenting Practice – the IBM Way.

On the Impending GATS Negotiations.

Some Databases on “Traditional Knowledge.

 

APRIL  NEWS
India ratifies regulatory framework on living modified organisms
The much maligned PSU’s still contributing so much to the GOI kitty?

India emerges global R&D base for MNCs

YieldGard Cotton Offers Rootworm Hope

Consolidation seen in seed sector in India.
Shocking data on R&D by Indian companies

Recent R&D successes of HAL, Bangalore.

Pat for patents ?
2003-04 Budget for S&T Departments
Drug Discovery – some estimates?
Ucal Fuel Systems – Orbital Engine Corporation Tie-Up, A Typical Example and its Possible Implications under the New IPR Regime.

 

FEBRUARY  NEWS
Kumar Malawalli in the Silicon Valley Hall of Fame.
“Compulsory Licensing” of IP in the US.

Governments to see Windows code.

Very Few New Drugs in 2002, Crisis in Drug Discovery?

IITs better than US institutes, says CBS.
DG-ICAR defends commercial release of Bt cotton.

Tax sops for R&D top drug sector wish-list

Biotech dilemma
Patenting in Electricals / Electronics in India.
Only 11 varieties can be shipped as `basmati'
   
JANUARY  NEWS
Patent of the Month by European Patent Office – December 2002
R&D award for NeST group co
R&D ENVIRONMENT LOOKS TOUGH
C-DAC revamped to focus more on R&D
Intergraph in patent suit vs 3 computer companies