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Nature 446, 599 (5 April 2007) | doi:10.1038/446599a; Published online 4 April 2007
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In brief
Indian scientist Raghunath Mashelkar, former head of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, has resigned as the chairman of a government panel on patent laws after charges that some parts of a recent report had been plagiarized. Non-governmental organizations, local pharmaceutical companies and some scientists had alleged that the panel allowed companies to monopolize drugs by letting them patent minor modifications to existing drugs.
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