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IANS: US challenges India's requirements for solar products in WTO February 11, 2014  In another potential blow to India-US ties after the Khobragade affair, US Monday challenged India's domestic content requirements in Phase II of India's National Solar Mission (NSM). "These domestic content requirements discriminate against US ...

Deccan Herald: IP protection worsening in India, says US group The influential US Chamber of Commerce today asked the Obama Administration to designate India as a Priority Foreign Country, the worst classification given to foreign countries that "deny adequate and effective" protection of intellectual property rights. "We hope that designat...

PTI: US industry backs govt’s WTO move against India’s solar policy February 11, 2014 http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/international/us-industry-backs-govts-wto-move-against-indias-solar-policy/article5676473.ece   The US solar and manufacturing industry has supported the Obama Administration’s move to challenge in the ...

The Hindu: Solar heat singes India-US ties February 11, 2014 NARAYAN LAKSHMAN http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/solar-heat-singes-indiaus-ties/article5675376.ece Though wounds from the Khobragade affair have scarcely begun to heal, the India-US relationship again witnessed a spike in tension this week as the US Trade ...

Reuters: Solar subsidies: US to turn the heat on India at WTO February 11, 2014 http://indianexpress.com/article/business/business-others/us-likely-to-drag-india-to-wto-on-solar-subsidies/ New Delhi:  The United States plans to take India to the World Trade Organization (WTO) over subsidies New Delhi gives to its solar power industry, ...

The U.S. filed a second complaint against India’s solar-energy policies at the World Trade Organization, reviving a year-old dispute between the two nations. Today’s action follows a case the U.S. filed in February 2013 at the Geneva-based WTO, saying India’s requirements for locally made components on solar-energy products violate global ...

U.S. trade officials are requesting another consultation with India over that nation's domestic content requirements on imported solar panels. U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said Monday that India discriminates against U.S. solar cells and modules by requiring solar power developers to use Indian-manufactured equipment. “Today�...

Patents and Copyrights Are Not for Violation: By The New Indian Express Published: 07th February 2014 India has for the second time in succession found itself at the bottom of the International Intellectual Property Index issued by the US apex trade body’s Global Intellectual Property Centre (GIPC). It certainly has a point that the ...

Business Standard: Turning down knowledge Troublingly, India is an outlier on intellectual property February 5, 2014 India's dismal rating on the intellectual property (IP) environment by the United States Chamber of Commerce is worrisome, especially considering the country's aspirations to go in for knowledge- and innovation-based ...

Business Standard: India ranks at the bottom in terms of IP index January 29, 2014 Despite the current decade being called India’s “decade of innovation”, the country has been ranked at the bottom of the list of 25 countries in terms of its intellectual property(IP) environment. According to the 2014 International Intellectual ...