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…

The draft intellectual property policy of the Department of Trade and Industry has been subjected to much debate on these pages between those seeking to preserve the status quo and those in favour of an overhaul.

The current regime is unsustainable. Emerging economies are right to lead the pushback against patenting standards