According to many media this morning, citing anonymous sources, the World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Body has reached a decision in a dispute challenging Australia’s tobacco product plain packaging law. Australia appears to have won the case. The WTO is non-committal and says only a “confidential interim report” has been circulated. Australia is not [...]
Economic espionage has been a hot topic of sorts since the September 2015 agreement was made between USA and China, that called for both the countries to not knowingly conduct or support cyber enabled trade secret theft from companies in each others’ land with the intent of providing competitive advantage to its companies of [...]
Economic espionage has been a hot topic of sorts since the September 2015 agreement was made between USA and China, that called for both the countries to not knowingly conduct or support cyber enabled trade secret theft from companies in each others’ land with the intent of providing competitive advantage to its companies of [...]
Overview:The Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks has given a compulsory license to Hyderabad based Natco a local drug maker to manufacture and sell its generic version of German multinational Bayer’s patent-protected cancer medicine, Nexavar (Sorafenib tosylate), at about 30 times lower than charged by its Bayer Corporation. Detailed Analysis: On Monday [...]
FICCI and Centre for WTO Studies jointly organized a special address by Dr. Harsha Vardhan Singh , Deputy Director General , WTO on 3rd June 2010 on “WTO Doha Round Negotiations : The way forward and where does the balance lies?” The main agenda of meeting was to discuss the significance and current state of [...]
