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Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2021 has been notified

In News Recently, the Centre has notified the amendments to the Patents Rules. Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2021 which will reduce the fee for patent filing and prosecution for educational institutions by 80 per cent. This will promote Innovation and Creativity in a Knowledge-Economy Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2021 Patent Fees for Educational Institutions has been reduced […]

Status of Patents in India

In News India has recorded 572% growth in grant of Patents in the last 7 years. About Trade Marks registration has shot up from 65,045 in 2015-16 to 2,55,993 in 2020-21. These developments have reflected positively in the improvement of India’s ranking in Global Innovation Index to 48th in 2020, (+33 ranks from 81st in […]

Vaccine Equity

In News Recently, the Indian Foreign Minister flagged ‘vaccine equity’ Calls for global cooperation to combat pandemics at the G-20 ministerial meetings.  About These remarks came in the wake of the European Union’s (EU) opposition to India’s and South Africa’s proposal to increase large-scale manufacturing of vaccines by waiving some parts of the intellectual property […]

CHIME Project

In News Recently, Scientists have assembled the largest collection of fast radio bursts (FRBs) in the telescope’s first FRB catalogue. About Researchers at the Pune-based Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (TIFR) and the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) with collaboration of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) Collaboration have achieved this milestone. A […]

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx: NASA

In News OSIRIS-REx spacecraft starts its two-year-long journey back to Earth. About OSIRIS-REx It is the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from a near-Earth asteroid, called Bennu (formerly 1999 RQ36) and return it to Earth for study. Scientists will use the asteroid samples to study the formation of the solar system and of […]

Patent Waiver on Covid-19 Vaccines

In News Recently, the US has decided to support waiving patents on Covid-19 vaccines. Background In October 2020, India and South Africa submitted a proposal to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). It asked for suspension of vaccine patents for the duration of the pandemic and sharing of the formula for jabs prepared by AstraZeneca and […]