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The Fight Against the “Book Famine”
Latha R. Nair, a partner at K&S Partners in Gurgaon, sees India’s efforts to expand accessibility beginning even further back. The Daisy Forum of India was launched as early as

When the Guard of the “Boll-Guard” Fell!
The Delhi High Court’s order in the legal battle between agro-biotech giant Monsanto and Indian seed giant, Nuziveedu, was a good prompt to write about the wired subject of patentability

The propriety of registering regional food stuff as a Geographical Indication
The recent controversy between the States of West Bengal and Odisha over the intellectual property (IP) rights over a sweetmeat raises several questions on the propriety of registering every regional

What exactly are GIs and who can apply for GI status
Recent conversations around geographical indication have involved cases such as a GI tag on Alphonso mangoes from Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg, the Coffee Board applying for GI to protect Araku coffee,

Supreme Court of India set to rule in crucial plant innovation dispute
There are important legal issues at stake in the Supreme Court of India’s ongoing review of the patentability of Monsanto’s Bt Cotton technology, explains K&S Partners’ Deepa K. Tiku All