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India protects traditional medicines from piracy

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Access to national database eases search for existing treatments.

European patent examiners can now access India's massive database on traditional remedies in order to ensure that patents are not granted for treatments already used in Indian systems of medicine. But critics say that the move, which is intended to thwart piracy of traditional knowledge, may backfire.

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Jayaraman, K. India protects traditional medicines from piracy. Nature (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2009.107

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