Thursday, May 24, 2007

Controversy: The Bikram Yoga Patent Soup

Yoga is a 10 000 year old plus system of knowledge and healing followed by the people of India.

The regular practice of yoga by people in good health can work as a powerful, nearly cost free and simple way to stay fit and healthy for life.

Bikram Choudhary's efforts to patent yoga is shocking!

Equally alarming, till date, the US Patent and Trademark office has issued 150 yoga-related copyrights, 134 trademarks on yoga accessories and 2,315 yoga trademarks.

Do take a look at this!
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/US_patent_on_yoga_Indian_gurus_fume
/articleshow/2058285.cms


Here's another question

What is the best policy for the Indian government to follow to ensure that traditional systems of knowledge and healing like yoga stay protected as a people's low cost knowledge and healing system?

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