The Indian government has now set up a task force to document and disseminate traditional Indian wisdom such as yoga techniques and other discovered remedies in an attempt to stave off people patenting them other countries which are lax in their prior art research. Apparently, other countries have been patenting traditional discoveries from India such as yoga techniques and natural remedies and then using patent and copyright law to outlaw them inside India now that India has joined the WTO.
Read about it from Suketu Mehta at the International Herald Tribune here.
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