Patent of Ayurvedic Medicines - PIB India Release

Monday, 03 August 2009
Lok Sabha

The Indian Patent Office has received a number of applications from Indian as well as foreign inventors and companies seeking patents in all fields of technologies, including possibly Ayurvedic medicines, which are published on the website of the Patent Office, namely, http://www.ipindia.nic.in/.

Patents are granted to inventors, including individuals and companies, for products and processes which meet the criteria of novelty, inventive step and industrial application under the sovereign prerogative of countries according to their respective laws which have territorial effect only, that is, they are effective only in the country of grant. Patents granted in other countries are not applicable in India and do not affect the Ayurvedic medical practitioners in India.
In order to protect traditional knowledge from being patented, provisions have been made in the Patents Act, 1970. As per section 3 (p) of the Act, an invention, which, in effect, is traditional knowledge or which is an aggregation or duplication of known properties of traditionally known component or components is not patentable. Sections 25 and 64 of the said Act, include anticipation of invention by available local knowledge, including oral knowledge, as one of the grounds for opposition as also for revocation.

The Government has undertaken the development of a Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) database which includes codified knowledge of traditional medicine, including Ayurveda and Unani, in five international languages, namely, English, German, French, Spanish and Japanese to prevent patenting of inventions which are mere traditional knowledge.

This information was given by Shri Jyotiraditya M Scindia, Minister of State for Commerce & Industry, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.

Source: Press Information Bureau, Government of India

An Effort to Prove Ayurveda Can Cure Faster....!

CIIE supports health centre enterprise
BS Reporter / Mumbai/ Ahmedabad August 05, 2009, 0:46 IST

The Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship, an initiative of the Indian Instutute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA)'s has churned out yet another start-up in the form of a health centre. An employee at CIIE, Charmie Haria has set up her own enterprise — Aikya Ayurveda Cure. Apparently, the centre aims at breaking the myth that ayurveda cures slowly. "Most of us believe that ayurveda medicines take long to work on the body. At Aikya, we want to break this myth by using the 'panchkarma' treatment, which cures ailments from the root cause between 10 days and two months. We are trying to fill a gap between traditional ayurveda vaidyas and hi-end Ayurveda spas by providing state of the art panchkarma and other treatments at affordable rates," says Charmie Haria , founder, Aikya Ayurveda Cure.

According to Haria, Aikya concentrates not only on lifestyle disorders like stress, obesity, insomnia but also looks at mainstream health issues like asthma, nervous system problems, arthritis, hypertension, migraine and various health ailments.
After launching the first centre in Ahmedabad, Haria plans to open a chain of centres across the country next year.
CIIE encourages innovation-driven entrepreneurship through incubation, research and dissemination of knowledge. It was setup by IIM, Ahmedabad in 2001 and is supported by Government of Gujarat and the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. CIIE aims at supporting innovation driven entrepreneurship in hi – tech and mass impact areas

Source: Business Standard

PrasannAyurveda wishes all the very best to Aikya's efforts and committment.