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11 November 2012
After India, Now Indonesia Introduces Patent Licenses For Generic Versions Of Drugs
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As we noted a couple of weeks ago, when we wrote about India's moves to issue compulsory licences for the production of generic ver...
13 October 2012
Emerging Countries Take Note: Big Pharma's Losing Patent Battles In India
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Techdirt has been following the important story of the kidney and liver cancer drug marketed under the name Nexavar since March , when In...
29 September 2012
India And Kyrgyzstan Ramp Up Internet Monitoring And Censorship Efforts
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Techdirt has written about earlier moves by India to block Web sites and censor Twitter accounts. The central concern seems to be that ...
15 July 2012
India Moves Even More Of Its Healthcare Away From Western Pharma
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A few years back, Techdirt noted that India had 16,000 licensed drug manufacturers in the 1990s, and became a net exporter of pharmaceut...
23 June 2012
After India And Brazil, Now China Takes Steps To Allow Cheap Versions Of Patented Drugs
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In recent months, Techdirt has reported on an important development in the world of medicine, as both India and Brazil have allowed loca...
10 June 2012
Generics Drive Down Drug Prices In India, TPP Trying To Stop That
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Back in March, we wrote about an important development in India, where a compulsory license for Bayer's Nexavar anti-cancer drug was g...
23 March 2012
Why is Firefox - and Open Source - a Disaster in China?
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Like many people, I've been tracking the steady ascent of Google Chrome - and corresponding decline of Microsoft's Internet Expl...
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13 March 2012
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As Michael Geist and others have pointed out, ACTA is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement without the main sources of counterfeits b...
13 February 2012
ACTA Update V
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The European Commission's defence of ACTA has essentially two prongs. The first is that "ACTA changes nothing for Europeans&quo...
13 January 2012
Indian Judge Tells Google And Facebook To 'Check And Remove Objectionable Material' Or Be Blocked
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A few weeks back, Techdirt reported on an Indian minister asking Internet companies to do the impossible: On Techdirt .
Why Apple Will Not Be Part Of The Real Tablet Revolution
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You don't have to be a marketing genius or industry pundit to foresee that tablets will be an extremely hot sector in 2012. The launc...
03 November 2011
India Wants UN Body To Run The Internet: Would That Be Such A Bad Thing?
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The Internet is under attack – but not, as politicians would have us believe, from hordes of cyber criminals , but from the politicians th...
20 October 2011
Of Open Source, Microsoft, India and Paraguay
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One of the recurrent recent themes of IT in the UK has been how moves to open source by local and central government have been stymied by ...
26 November 2010
Wikipedia as (Multilingual) Word-Hoard
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Wikipedia is often regarded as little more than a poor person's encyclopedia, providing a handy reference collection of basic facts. Bu...
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15 November 2010
A Great Indian Takeaway
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As you may have noticed, I've been writing quite a lot about the imminent European Interoperability Framework (EIF), and the extent to w...
07 October 2010
Back to the Future Again: 2020 FLOSS 3.0
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Yesterday I wrote about my experiences last week at the Open World Forum. As I noted, the two-day event closed with the presentation of the...
06 October 2010
The World of the Open World Forum
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Last week I went along to the Open World Forum in Paris. By that, I don't mean to imply I just bowled along there on the off-chance it m...
19 April 2010
Open Source Drug Discovery
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One of the inspirations for free software was the scientific method. So it's deeply ironic that science finds itself increasingly unab...
06 April 2010
Nigeria, India, China: Our Copyright-Free Future
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Here is another of Kevin Kelly's brilliant posts, but this time it's not about deep philosophical issues, but something really munda...
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24 July 2009
Bill Gates Shows His True Identity
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And so it starts to come out : Microsoft is angling to work on India’s national identity card project, Mr. Gates said, and he will be meetin...
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