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| - | Can you patent wisdom? | + | '''Can you patent wisdom?''' This the title of an opinion article by Suketu Mehta in International Herald Tribune May 7, 2007 [http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/07/opinion/edmehta.php]. Quotations: |
: ''The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued 150 yoga-related copyrights, 134 patents on yoga accessories, and 2,315 yoga trademarks. There's big money in those pretzel twists and contortions - $3 billion a year in America alone. It's a mystery to most Indians that anybody can make that much money from the teaching of a knowledge that is not supposed to be bought or sold like sausages.'' | : ''The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued 150 yoga-related copyrights, 134 patents on yoga accessories, and 2,315 yoga trademarks. There's big money in those pretzel twists and contortions - $3 billion a year in America alone. It's a mystery to most Indians that anybody can make that much money from the teaching of a knowledge that is not supposed to be bought or sold like sausages.'' | ||
Latest revision as of 11:10, 11 May 2007
Can you patent wisdom? This the title of an opinion article by Suketu Mehta in International Herald Tribune May 7, 2007 [1]. Quotations:
- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued 150 yoga-related copyrights, 134 patents on yoga accessories, and 2,315 yoga trademarks. There's big money in those pretzel twists and contortions - $3 billion a year in America alone. It's a mystery to most Indians that anybody can make that much money from the teaching of a knowledge that is not supposed to be bought or sold like sausages.
- It is worth noting that the people in the forefront of the patenting of traditional Indian wisdom are Indians, mostly overseas.
Yoga means union. Yoga is fun. Yoga-patents are not.
