Friday01 Jun 11:49 AM
India's Yoga Patent Showdown
How can any Tom, Dick and Harry, who has no true knowledge of Yoga, can get patent of Yoga, the traditional knowledge of India?
Swami Ramdev
Fake Babas and others who regularly consume liquor or eat meat have mushroomed in large numbers as experts of Yoga. Their interest is commercial.
Swami Ramdev
India, hot the heels of Sukhetu Meta's inspirational call-to-arms — an Op Ed piece at the New York Times republished here — has been clamoring to (rightfully) reclaim its vast wellspring of traditional knowledge, as greedy opportunists within the US's flawed and culturally irresponsible copyright and patent laws continue to successfully trademark, copyright, and patent India's increasingly lucrative folk knowledge and wisdom.
Yoga cannot be patented as it belongs to the entire country and humanity. Also yoga cannot be run like a company.
Swami Ramdev
Bitten by patent blows in the past over basmati and turmeric, India doesn't want to be caught off guard again by the West with the rising ubiquity of yoga across the globe, not merely as a practice but as an economic force. Hopefully India's noise will bring some action against the current arrogance of US-based yoga guru Bikram Choudhury's and his efforts to patent his steamy string of yoga poses.
- India to target yoga patents @ Sunday Times
- American attempt to patent yoga puts Indians in a twist @ Times Online
- India to protest grant of yoga patents by US @ The Times of India
- Indian mission asked to take up yoga patent with U.S. @ The Hindu
- India to protest against US patent of yoga @ Khaleej Times Online
- Patent Exploitation @ The Times of India
- It's patently obvious @ Asia Times
- Ramdev, NRI at war for Yoga patent @ ibnlive
- Yoga should not be patented: Ramdev @ The Times of India
- Yoga copyright raises questions of ownership @ USA Today
- India To 'Bling-Bling': You Blow @ Guruphiliac
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Mon 18 Jun 2007 at 08:27PM
Also yoga cannot be run like a company. --Swami Ramdev
Ramdev should tell that to the folks selling his "medicines."
Tue 17 Jul 2007 at 03:04PM
santosh
This means if it gets patented,individuals will loose right to breath,or have to pay for breathing.hahha
Tue 27 Nov 2007 at 04:45PM
trisha
Perhaps Bikram would not feel he has to patent / protect it if there were not so many charlatans peddling their adulterated / altered versions of it to an unsuspecting vulnerable public;
Bikram is not the fake; he is very transparent and his lineage is pure. At the very least this way practitioners of this style of yoga can be sure they are getting at least minimum safe standard and good yoga all rounder
Tue 11 Mar 2008 at 04:18AM
Ann-Eva Hallqvist
How can anyone even think of stealing a tradition, thousands of years old wisdom, and call it his yoga patent??
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