13 February 2009

EPO accepts traditional knowledge database

Peter Ollier, Hong Kong

Examiners at the European Patent Office can now use 500-year old traditional Indian medical texts when examining patent applications, after the Office signed a deal to use a pioneering database

The government of India has granted the EPO access to its Traditional Knowledge Digital Library, which is a 30-million-page searchable database of traditional knowledge translated from Hindi, Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian, Urdu and Tamil into English, Japanese, French, German and Spanish. The EPO began using the database on February 2.

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