Article: Think twice before patenting yoga poses, TKDL is here!

Think twice before patenting yoga poses, TKDL is here!

New Delhi, Dec 11 (PTI) After years of helplessly watching Westerners plagiarize its traditional knowledge - from yoga poses to ayurvedic medicine - India has decided to put an end to generous free lunches people have been helping themselves to.

The government is in the process of translating millions of ancient transcripts on traditional knowledge areas to create an exhaustive database in English and other foreign languages, hoping that patent offices abroad would refer to them before granting applicants the right to use what is not theirs.

The database, christened Traditional Knowledge ...

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