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- cybernetic798, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15This is such a good idea. I mean after German companies tried patenting the Neem tree (a ***** tree that has been growing in India for thousands of years! where does one get off patenting a tree!), American folks patented different 'forms' of yoga (often these 'forms' are strange versions of yoga which are based on no real science of the body and could even be dangerous), and others copyrighted the kama sutra (wow...) , this is a necessary move.
It is disgusting how much the Western world's corporations exploit other nations... - koregaonpark, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I completely agree. The patent system in the United States is broken. It's upto other countries, whose cultures and traditions are being patented (literally!) to put a stop to this *****. It's not like some Guru in the middle of the fricking Himalayas is asking people to pay him royalties for inventing the backward-left-twist-elephant-hop-whatever. The RIAA could learn something from this dude (who I just made up).
- johndi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Sorry about that, the 762 patents were randomly selected from patents involving plant based medicinal products.
In 2005, India's National Institute randomly selected 762 U.S. patents that had been granted for medicinal products using plants; it found that 49% were based on traditional Indian knowledge. Gupta estimates about 2,000 patents each year based on India's traditional medicine are taken out somewhere in the world. - sachmanb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I find it ridiculous that we can patent some of these things to begin with.
- JoeParanoid, on 04/22/2009, -0/+2First I heard of this, a company had taken a strain of rice bred by local Indian farmers and simply walked into the US Patent Office with it. And once the patent was in hand, they turned around and sued the village that had created it. If we allow patenting of existing public knowledge and foodstuffs, we will all end up sitting in the dark starving to death. Which will probably be just as well since by then Monsanto will have patented every one of our genes so we will not be allowed to reproduce without a license.
- indijay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Stop stealing somebody else' knowledge!!! I guess, we coined a word called as plagiarism for that and we play a band of ethics as well, right?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Psh...This is just another bold claim...
If there are any Indians here, they would know that the government just talks big. And years later, what do you know? All that mojo talk is still stuck with red tape issues.
I can give another example. Few years back, the Indian government added another tax called Education Cess. And everything you bought or paid for attracted a 2% Education Cess. The money earned from that cess was gonna be used for improving the connectivity of the villages so that they could be educated using remote learning, better known as the internet. They were gonna make a website which would connect all the remove villages together.
Years and millions of rupees later, there's hardly anything. The website, which was supposed to connect the people, was a P.O.S. All it contained was a few links to international news sites (?!).
Don't believe everything you hear from the Indian government ;) - anarchist101, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1I wish I could digg you up more than once.
The idea of genetic patents (particularly with our copyright laws in their current form) is an even exponentially higher form of absurdity than that of EULA agreements and software patents in general are. - male73, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Prof. Lessig has been warning us about this before. Free culture is the only way to go if we don't want to starve creativity.
- supaskunk, on 05/07/2008, -0/+0There is a funny article on the use of Patents in http://digg.com/comedy/Patents_and_Copyright
- zhawhe, on 03/10/2009, -0/+0the patents can be something ba sometimes
http://yogaathome.comyr.com - indijay, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Its pretty brilliant initiative by Indian government but as usual this is pretty late after fighting couple of battles over these patents, or should I say late wisdom, not too bad. I just hope that it doesn't get stuck anywhere between the red tape of bureaucracy. The government and or concerned department should not heed any pressure from western world or corporate not to do this or so. (But yes, at the same time, you must appreciate(?) how 'smart' (?) these corporates are to label some grain of rice which is as long as Basmati which is grown in India and Pakistan for thousands of years as Chasmati and get a patent, real nuts!! ::frown::
- rs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"49% were based on traditional Indian knowledge" fails the basic plausibility test.
- psilanthropist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1amen to that. first hand experience. i've been paying the crappy edu cess tax for a long time. there was a slum cleared right next to my house to build a government school . . . . 5 years ago.
but who knows this might be different. take RTI forinstance, thats going pretty well. www.rti.gov.in - psychicfriend, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5Yeah, just the other day I saw a granted U.S. Patent for an error-correcting nonlinear trellis coder-decoder that was CLEARLY lifted straight from the Bhagavad-Gita.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Damn, so I can't patent a monkey warrior that shoots supersonic, homing arrows because its in the vedics?
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