TKDL:
Pangaea
Laboratories Limited, a UK-based company is a cosmeceutical research and
development giant. In February, 2011 Pangaea filed a patent application in the
European Patent Office (EPO) for a medicinal composition containing turmeric,
pine bark and green tea for treating hair loss.
However, once the patent
application was published on the website of the EPO, the Council of Scientific
and Industrial Research (CSIR) with the help of the Traditional Knowledge
Digital Library (TKDL), which is a Indian digital repository of the myriad traditional
knowledge, especially medically based, that is part of India’s tradition and
culture since ancient times, filed an objection with evidence on January 13,
2014.
CSIR in
its submissions proved to the EPO that turmeric, pine bark and green tea are
being used as hair loss treatment in the Indian medical systems like Ayurveda
and Unani since the time of the Vedas.
Based on
the evidence and submissions by CSIR, the said application was “deemed to be
withdrawn” on June 29, 2015.
This
comes soon after TKLD recently also led to the down-fall of a patent
application by Colgate-Palmolive in respect of a mouthwash formula containing
‘Jayaphal’ (Nutmeg).
TKDL is
a one of a kind Indian database which has proven to be a strong deterrent
against the misuse/misappropriation of our country’s traditional knowledge in
Patent Offices around the World.
TKDL has
successfully brought down nearly 200 such patent applications that were based
on Indian Traditional Knowledge not only in Europe but also in the United
States of America and other countries, being a vast and structured database
that has classified the Indian traditional medicine system in approximately
25,000 sub-groups for Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha and Yoga.
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