User:Book/BlogEntry: 2007 May 11 13:58:13 EAT

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Can you patent wisdom? opinio article by Suketu Mehta, International Herald Tribune May 7, 2007 [1].

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.