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Nature 442, 120 (13 July 2006) | doi:10.1038/442120a; Published online 12 July 2006

Is India's 'patent factory' squandering funds?

K. S. Jayaraman

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Research agency slammed for patenting everything.

'Patent or perish' is the slogan of Ragunath Mashelkar, head of India's largest publicly funded scientific agency. Over the past decade he has turned the 40 or so labs under his control into a patent factory.

Apache Tomcat/5.0.7 - Error report

HTTP Status 500 -


type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet execution threw an exception

root cause

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError

note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Tomcat logs.


Apache Tomcat/5.0.7