India has once again successfully foiled an attempt by a major European major dermaceutical company to take patent on a medicinal composition containing turmeric, pine bark and green tea for treating hair loss.
“India once again has been successful in protecting its traditional knowledge by preventing an attempt made by Europe’s leading dermaceutical laboratory — Pangaea Laboratories Limited, to take patent on a medicinal composition containing turmeric, pine bark and green tea for treating hair loss,” an official statement issued by the Ministry of Science and Technology said.
Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL), a unit of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, located the patent application filed at European Patent Office by Pangaea Laboratories Limited and filed pre-grant opposition along with prior-art evidences from TKDL, proving that turmeric, pine bark and green tea, are being used as a treatment for hair loss, since long in Indian systems of medicine like Ayurveda and Unani.
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The UK-based company had filed the patent application at European Patent Office in February, 2011. CSIR-TKDL Unit had filed evidences from TKDL on January 13, 2014 after the patent application got published on website, pursuant to which the patent application is finally deemed to be withdrawn by the applicant on June 29, 2015, the statement added.
Till date, CSIR-TKDL Unit has achieved success in about 200 such cases without any cost.
Very good educating the public. We need more informed artice of truth and wisdom
Deva
Great news !!! Kudos to CSIR-TKDL. We have lost a lot patents to USA and other countries in the past. Indian Govt should fight all such patent cases vigorously to establish Ayurveda and other traditional treatment values of ancient India !!
it is good that they did it, except that they don’t do anything else, and they wont do anything ever. there are thousand of these concoctions lying buried in shastras. they are jealous that somebody else may make money out of these. why don’t they sell these formulas and rather make some money out of such so-called if at all treasures. shame on them.
Traditionally Ayurvedic doctors did not even charge to maintain the people’s health, they took minimal support from pious Kings for the welfare of the citizens of the state. Still today, Ayurvedic medicines are very reasonably priced because the remedies, the herbs and ingredients are accepted as a gift from the Supreme Lord Sri Krishna and God’s incarnation Sri Dhanvantari. As long as those caring for the remedies are not greedy money-minded, the knowledge and right to produce Ayurvedic remedies can be kept pure with India and distributed for the benefit of the whole world. When those in so-called positions to sell the Lord’s blessing on mankind desire to “make some money out of such “so-called” if at all treasures?!!” to the godless westerners, who are very expert at changing (read polluting) and overpricing everything, then all will lose. Good this time, things were done right.
For more than 200 years Portugese , Dutch and more so British looted this country of gold . spices , killed indigenous hand woven clothing , after 400 years of looting by marauding tribes that came from afganistan , Mangolia etc in the name of religion . All because the people of this country that is Bharat , were divided despite belonging to the same religion , culture .
Now all MNCs after advertising their so called beauty products , fooling even the educated , are finding it difficult to continue to sell. They have now resorted to poaching Ancient Ayurveda which was thrown to dust by British brain washing . Arise you Indians , learn your ancient potential , and try to live with the home grown medicinal herbs abundant in India
Good news…Thanks to the inter-net but for this we could have failed in our attempts. Let us not give up and let us others grab our assets.
At last it is “Better late than never” that India has woken up. Claiming rights for someone’s effort is nothing short of thievery. Our Rishi’s were exemplary in their discovery and they did it for the benefit of the mankind.
The religion of the Upanishads, the centre of spiritual energy has ever waited this moment and is ever and ever ready to serve and save Europe, this centre of manifestation of material energy.
Can the agency which foiled the attempt publish the name of Aurvedic medicine which is made using these ingredients?
It will help people know that such a remedy exists and can beade use of.
They are continuing the robbery. Luckily we have a Govt that have the guts to protect our culture.
This site is a natural cure for ignorance on natural healthcare management. Thank you for your service.
West always thinks they are the BEST in the world in every field.
Well, I’ll not blame them fully because our own people have more hunger and greed for money.
At the same time they still prefer or think that white skin is better than Us, INDIANS.
It is really heartening to note that our authorities are alert in stopping such things. It is a proven fact that many good things have been told in Vedas which have been better utilised by countries like Germany rather than our own country. We conveniently try to forget the good things taught by Ayurveda abd Vedas. We try to embrace western culture and destroy ourselves.