New Intellectual Property Policy will make access to healthcare services much more affordable, across the public and private healthcare sectors, says Achmat…

The European Union (EU) is currently negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) with the four founding members of Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay), which comprises a chapter on intellectual property rights (IPR).

American economist Joseph Stiglitz has pleaded with the South African government to resist US pressure to squash the plans for far-reaching intellectual property (IP) policy reforms set out earlier…

For well over a decade, we’ve noted that Nobel Prize-winning economist Joe Stiglitz has been one of the many, many economists who are skeptical of the benefits of our current patent system…

As United States President Donald Trump promotes a new trade protectionism, the developing world can use the opportunity to create a better system of globalisation, but there’ll be resistance from US…