Recent US Patents related Indian Traditional Spices.
| US Patents having numbers
6,051,235; 6,242,012; 6,063,381; 6,224,871; 6,054,585; 5,072,382; 6,171,683;
6,159,474 have been warded for a variety of uses of spices such as ginger
, piperine , coffee substitute and aswagandha.So also a broad based patent
in US for those derived from Amla to Natreon Inc, a New Jeresey based company.
Russians have recently filed six patents on ‘vacha’ , a semi-aquatic herb
found in India, out of a total of 26 global patents. Herbal business estimated
at billions of dollars at the global level, it is essential that wherever
scientifically possible, Indian S&T institutions and companies also
must initiate serious R&D programs leading to good quality patents,
failing which the Indian Basumati story may happen for this sector as well
as and when export activity
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