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India putting material into Open Access to preempt bogus patents
Through Open Access News, we learn that offense is the best defense against bogus patents. Indeed, it appears people seem to be patenting traditional Indian medicine, inducing India to incur large costs for challenging these patents. By making a database of traditional medicine available to patent offices, this should not be possible anymore as prior art is easier to establish.
[Posted at 02/13/2009 04:54 AM by Christian Zimmermann on Patents (General) 
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With regard to the Indian move to
protect traditional knowledge, this
movement is the culmination of many
years of attempted abuse by the big
pharma and others (like some yoga
teacher tried to patent a series of
yoga moves!).
The biggest mover on this was a guy named RA Mashelkar. His name did not appear anywhere as he was mixed up in a scandal of plagiarism. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/315/5818/1475d
Tapen
[Comment at 02/28/2009 04:41 PM by Tapen Sinha]
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