[Ip-health] HT and AEI on Indian patent law

[Achal Prabhala]

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Two pleasantly dim articles on Indian patent law which provide comic relief=
.

First, Barun Mitra puts his feeble mind to issues he doesn't quite grasp: h=
ttp://beta.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=3D6ceefbc4-07c4-4=
454-a89b-f625ea42a52f and then Roger Bate wags his tail at the subject in: =
http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.25989/pub_detail.asp

>From which we can only deduce that AEI fellows and their tropical consorts =
have inferior internet connections but superior mind-reading skills. Never =
mind that Mashelkar himself has said that his report has nothing to do with=
 sec 3(d) of Indian patent law: http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/commons-law=
/2007-February/002358.html
>>>[Mashelkar] says that he's "in total agreement with Section 3(d). The be=
nchmarks that we set depends entirely on us. It is for any individual count=
ry to decide the threshold limits and it is through these thresholds that t=
he governments can exercise control."<<<

The upside - for all those "critics" out there, with enemies like this, who=
 needs friends?
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