Author name: Aysha Shaukat

As a forerunner in all aspects of IPR, the State of Kerala plans to introduce IPR as a core subject in its curriculum both at the school and university level. Readers may recall our earlier post where we had mentioned that Kerala is approaching its IPR initiatives in a systematic bottom up approach.Introducing policy initiatives, gearing up the IP- admin infrastructure and inculcating awareness and educating the young, the State is on a robust IPR mission.Unnikrishnan of Livemint reports: The […]

TK(traditional knowledge) has been quite an attention grabber the last few months-from hotch potch state legislations that threaten to reawaken the bygone era of the License Raj, to high voltage discussions at the Green room in Geneva, TKs’ assumed centre stage. Making inroads into the mountainous terrains of the Hindu Kush, The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development(ICMOD) has launched a project to implement and facilitate an equitable ABS(Access and Benefit Sharing) mechanism in the Eastern Himalayan countries of India,

At the inaugural of the Two-day National Seminar on “Intellectual Property Rights” jointly organized by Kerala State Council for Science, Technology & Environment, Patent Office Chennai and National Institute of Intellectual Property Management, Nagpur, the Law Minister Mr. M. Vijay Kumar declared that the State is going ahead with making a legislation for “Traditional Knowledge Protection” as committed in the “IPR Policy of Kerala”.Keralas’ so called ‘IPR policy’ has come under much flak for stepping on the Centres’ mandate and