-The Business Standard The Novartis verdict by the Supreme Court emphasised the importance of flexibilities in drug patent laws, in contrast to Western countries which are seeking TRIPS-plus hardening through free-trade agreements As curtains on the six-year-long legal tussle with Swiss drug giant Novartis AG finally came down earlier this month, the Indian government did not waste a second in hailing the Indian patent law which it said was in "full...
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The Larger Implications of the Novartis Glivec Judgment-Sudip Chaudhuri
-Economic and Political Weekly The Supreme Court judgment on the Novartis-Glivec case is remarkable because it has gone beyond the specific technical and legal issues surrounding patents and has put the matter in a much larger political and economic perspective. The deeper implication of the judgment is that it is not only justified to deny patents when incremental innovation is trivial as in the Glivec case. The judgment has linked the...
More »Consumers face fresh power tariff hikes -Utpal Bhaskar and Aman Malik
-Live Mint Government rejects coal price pooling, moves closer to allowing projects assured fuel linkages by CIL to import coal The government rejected a proposal to pool coal prices and instead moved a step closer to allowing power projects that had been awarded through competitive bidding and assured fuel linkages by state-owned miner Coal India Ltd (CIL) to import the fuel and pass on the incremental costs as higher electricity Tariffs. Price pooling...
More »Rise in power Tariffs shifts debate to quality- Kirthi V Rao and Utpal Bhaskar
-Live Mint Tariffs reach at least Rs.4 per unit in many states, finds analysis, amid efforts to bail out state discoms Indian domestic consumers in 16 states are paying at least `4 per unit for power and in some cases even more, according to an analysis, thus giving the lie to the long-held axiom that raising Tariffs is nearly impossible in India given the political compulsions. The finding also shows conclusively that...
More »Haryana to challenge Adani Power tariff ruling: minister- Matthias Williams & Nidhi Verma
-Live Mint Legal challenge threatens to undermine what Indian power firms had cheered as a major boost to sector The Haryana government will challenge the central power regulator's ruling this week that allows Adani Power Ltd to raise Tariffs for electricity supplied to existing clients in two states, its power minister told Reuters on Thursday. The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has allowed Adani Power to charge "compensatory" Tariffs for electricity from its...
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