Ayuverda protected from Medicine Companies
Pangaea Laboratories Limited, a UK based dermaceutical company had to withdraw a patent on a medicinal composition of turmeric, pine bark and green tea for treating hair loss.
The Ministry of Science and Technology of India had successfully intervened in protecting its traditional knowledge by preventing an attempt made by the said company. It had filed pre-grant opposition along with prior-art evidences proving that the ingredients are being used as a treatment for hair loss in Indian systems of medicine like Ayurveda and Unani, since millenia.
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