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Brickbats for compulsory licences
India’s pharmaceuticals industry tends to be in the eye of the storm for one reason or the other. If it is not about its aggressive generics thrust globally, it is about high-profile patent infringement cases at home and abroad. The gamut of laws governing the sector, therefore, are keenly watched …The madness of software patents
Per se is a straightforward term meaning by or in itself. Those who use it are pretty clear what the Latin-origin term signifies.And that’s what our lawmakers must have also believed when they used it in the 2005 amendment to India’s Patent Act. But unaccountably this particular term has turned …