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Expert group on patent law issues
Our Bureau
New Delhi
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April 6
THE Government has constituted a Technical Expert Group to study certain patent law issues. The five-member committee is headed by Dr R.A. Mashelkar, Director General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). The other members are Dr Goverdhan Mehta, Director of the Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Science, Dr Asis Datta, Director of the National Centre for Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, Dr Madhav Menon, National Judicial Academy, Bhopal, and Dr Moolchand Sharma, Director of the National Law Institute University in Bhopal.
The technical group mandated to examine whether it would be TRIPs (Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights) compatible to limit the grant of patents for pharmaceutical substance to new chemical entity or to new medical entity involving one or more inventive steps and whether it would be TRIPs compatible to exclude micro-organisms from patenting.
The Minister for Commerce and Industry, Mr Kamal Nath, while moving the Patent (Amendment) Bill 2005 had assured the Parliament that the issue of patent availability of new chemical entities and micro-organisms would be referred to an expert committee, and if as a result any amendments were suggested to safeguard the interests of these products, they would be incorporated in the new legislation later.
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