The Ministry of Commerce and Industry, under the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, has introduced draft amendments to the Patents Rules, 2003. These drafts detail various changes proposed by the Central Government, anchored on section 159 of the Patents Act, 1970. The government seeks to amend the …
21.8.85 USP 4531114 Terumo Corporation, Japan: HOT WATER EXTRACTS OF THE NEEMBARK, active against mouse L-5178Y cells and transplanted sarcoma 180 tumours; use: anti-cancer properties 3.12.85 USP4556562 Vikwood Ltd,USA: STABLE ANTI-PEST NEEM SEED EXTRACT, effective as a biorational agent for protection against pests like Japanese beetles; use: pesticide 20.2.90 USP …
"This is the time for competent scientists in India to come together to use our traditional knowledge for developing new chemicals in the agricultural and pharmaceutical sectors. A mission mode lasting three years, with well defined goals, would work. We must protect our collective rights to our traditional knowledge through …
"The tragedy of our century is that we did not carry the knowledge of neem with us when we began to chemicalise our agriculture with packages from abroad. For us, indigenous is never modern. There has been scientific work supporting indigenous practices, but modern industry has always been impressed with …
7.8.90 U5P 4946681/2.1.91 EP 0405701 W R Grace&Co;, USA: METtlODTOPREP~AN J MP R OVED STOM G E"SJABLENEEM SEEDEXTRACTfo r the prod uc. tiollof stableazadirach till sol~tions cowp!ising extracts o(groundneeln seeds with a sovent avillg aza lrac till solubility; use: pesticide 19.3.91 U5P 5001146/2.1.91 EP 0405291 W R Grace & Co, …
An additional search for neem-related patents through the US patent database, carried out in late December, 1995, revealed the existence of two more patents. Both were obtained by US corporations: patent no 5411736, dated May 2, 1995, held by W R Grace and Co, called Hydrophobic extracted neem oil -a …
Bhargava adds: "Unfortunately, neem is not the only case where we have lost out. We (at the CCMB) discovered a protein called seminal plasmin (published in Nature and widely publicised in the late 1970s around the world); a few years ago, we showed that it has anti-HIV properties. This work, …
TRIBALS and patent rights activists have something to cheer for. In the first instance of its kind, the Kani tribe dwelling in the Agastyar hills in southern Kerala, will get the rights over an anti-stress drug developed by the Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute (TBGRI). The tribe had helped …
ON MARCH 14,1995, an indigenous man of the Hagahai people (a tribe dwelling in the highlands of Papua New Guinea) ... ceased to own his genetic material." This sensational statement has been made by Pat Roy Mooney, executive director of Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI), a Canada-based plant genetics and …
INDIA is arming itself take on the enemy in the 'gene war'. It will no longer be easy for foreign firms to steal centuries-old traditional Indian plant varieties. In a bid to check any attempt to 'pilfer' the country's vast plant genetic heritage worth billions of dollars, India is strengthening …
EIGHTY per cent of the world's population depends on indigenous knowledge to meet their medicinal needs, and at least half rely on indigenous knowledge and crops for food supplies, according to a new study done by the United Nations Development Programme. The study concretises what has been generally voiced by …
THE Onges, a minor tribal community comprising of about 100 members, residing in the Little Andamans - one of the 300-odd islands in the Andaman and Nicobar island group - may soon emerge as the messiah for the steadily swelling ranks of malaria victims in the country and the world. …
A CONTROVERSIAL pharmaceuticals patent law pushed by the Brazilian President, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, has drawn flak from critics who accuse the government of favouring giant us multinationals. That Cardoso is bypassing the Congress and passing the law directly by presidential decree, is generating heat in the country's scientific, grassroot and …
ETHIOPIA, one of the poorest nations of the world, contains a treasure trove of a particular plant species - C arabica, a coffee germplasm. But it cannot develop the germplasm commercially and mint money by selling high-tech coffee varieties to the rich inclustrialised countries. This is because Escagenetics Corp, a …
Over the last few years, there has been a growing number of claims and counterclaims for plant patents.Around 80 per cent of these claims are from industrial corporations and the rest from non-profitmaking organisation The current plant patenting system is discriminatory as it fails to recognise or reward contributions of …
RECENT news reports regarding the patenting of neem have left me completely baffled. It needs to be noted that the use of neem extract, seeds, leaves or any other part as pesticide cannot be patented, since such uses have been known for hundreds of years. Neem seed, being a product …
Two groups,in the US - the Pure Food Campaign and the Coalition Against Life Patents - orgardsed a protest, and picket in New York and Chicago on September, 27, The protest was to draw attention to the possible dangers presented by genetically engineered plants, seeds, fruits and vegetables. The groups …
Big pharmaceutical companies in the US are rejoicing over a new Food and Drug Administration ruling that gives them an extension of 3 years on their drug patents. Consumer groups are not exactly delighted at the change because it could cost consumers billions of dollars, since companies that make cheaper …
Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela have joined forces to keep marauding multinationals off their biological resources. These signatories to the Andean Pact decided upon drastic steps to protect their home grounds, After a new us intellectual property legislation allowed co-porations to patent genetic information taken from any bio- logical source …
That eponymous Indian herbal cure-it-all, the neem, could provide the world with thrice its requirement of pesticides. But over 100 Indian entrepreneurs who attended a day-long workshop on neem plantations organised in Bombay by the Neem Foundation in the 1st week of May found the industry-research interface paralysed by static, …
ARE you an inventive genius worried about copyright? You could patent your well-honed skills or products. The Patent Information System (PIS) of the Government of India, located in all the metropolitan cities, grants patent rights for an invention for a limited number of years. A patent right is a property …
