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USPTO to use Indian traditional knowledge library

27 November 2009

Peter Ollier, Hong Kong

The Indian government is to allow US patent examiners to access its database of traditional knowledge

India’s Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and the Department of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy developed the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL).

The TKDL is a 30 million-page searchable...



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