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Those who anticipate making profit by patenting yoga are exploiting information that is common knowledge in India. Yoga emerges from the Yoga Sutra and over the years has been interpreted differently by famous Yoga masters.
So how can anyone patent it?
http://www.merinews.com/article/patenti … 5143.shtml
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In the US, where yoga first became popular in the 1970s, it has been largely stripped of its cultural and religious overtones and turned into a $US3billion-a-year ($3.6 billion) subset of the fitness industry.
As yoga has gone mainstream, US authorities have issued 150 yoga-related copyrights, 134 patents on yoga accessories and 2315 yoga-related trademarks.
http://www.news.com.au/weird-true-freak … 1113656286
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Intellectual Capital for Communities in the Knowledge Economy
http://info.worldbank.org/etools/docs/l … HA_IC4.pdf
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From Yoga Patents To Pharmaceutical Patents
The author points out that 2000 patents are issued each year on reformulations of traditional Indian remedies. It's an interesting comparison of the ridiculousness of locking up yoga behind intellectual property laws.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070507/025920.shtml
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Traditional Knowledge Digital Library
is an Indian digital knowledge repository of the traditional knowledge, especially about medicinal plants and formulations used in Indian systems of medicine.
As of 2010, it had transcribed 148 books on Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha and Yoga in public domain, into 34 million pages of information, translated into five languages — English, German, French, Spanish and Japanese.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditiona … al_Library
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Patenting Yoga - A Crime Against Humanity
As a result, the Indian government has organized a group to gather Sanskrit and Tamil texts, which will catalog Yogic techniques and Ayurvedic medicine in multiple languages, to prevent patents of Yoga and Ayurveda. This action would make information about Yoga, and Ayurveda, more accessible to patent offices around the world.
http://www.neuro-vision.us/ad/Article/P … anity/1785
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India says no more of this patenting yoga rubbish.
We reported at the beginning of the year India was already headlong into an effort to “preserve” their history of yoga, and even going so far as to open a Yoga Museum in Mumbai.
To further the efforts, a team of 200 scientists and researchers from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and Union health ministry’s department of Ayush have joined forces with nine yoga institutions and set out on a mission to halt the Westerners “pirating” the yog.
http://www.yogadork.com/2009/02/23/indi … n-pirates/
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About TKDL
Introduction
Since time immemorial, India has possessed a rich traditional knowledge of ways and means practiced to treat diseases afflicting people. This knowledge has generally been passed down by word of mouth from generation to generation. A part of this knowledge has been described in ancient classical and other literature, often inaccessible to the common man and even when accessible rarely understood.
Documentation of this existing knowledge, available in public domain, on various traditional systems of medicine has become imperative to safeguard the sovereignty of this traditional knowledge and to protect it from being misappropriated in the form of patents on non-original innovations, and which has been a matter of national concern. India fought successfully for the revocation of turmeric and basmati patents granted by United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and neem patent granted by European Patent Office (EPO).
As a sequel to this, in 1999, the Department of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy-(AYUSH), erstwhile Department of Indian System of Medicine and Homoeopathy (ISM&H) constituted an inter-disciplinary Task Force, for creating an approach paper on establishing a Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL).The project TKDL was initiated in the year 2001.
http://www.tkdl.res.in/tkdl/langdefault … asp?GL=Eng
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