Public Money: Health groups fear the new bill will facilitate private property with public funds (Pic By Subhabrata Das) In the coming weeks, groups working in the area of public health are expected to voice their concerns on a proposed US-style Indian law being piloted by India's Ministry of Science and Technology. The Public-Funded R&D (Protection, Utilisation, and Regulation of Intellectual Property) Bill seeks to use patenting as a tool to encourage the use of taxpayer-funded research for the larger good but has been panned for potentially achieving just the opposite in the area of medical research and health. "This Bill can make a few people very rich,' says Leena Menghaney, an access-to-medicines campaigner at Geneva's M