[Fsf-friends] Re:India wins neem patent case

[Dilip V]

Hi,

Happy to hear that news. The victory is a result of a four-year-long
effort by Professor U P Singh, an agricultural scientist at the
Banaras Hindu University who has represented the Indian side during
the case. Also Kudos to RFSTE director Vandana Shiva !

Read another article : http://www.rediff.com/news/2000/may/11neem.htm
 

Regards,

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Dilip V,

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Read : http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/intro/index.html


> Speaking from Germany, Dr. Shiva — one of the three parties to oppose
> the patent — said: "It was pure and simple piracy. The oil from neem
> has been used traditionally by farmers to prevent fungus. It was
> neither a novel idea nor was it invented. It is a major victory that
> the appeal has been finally dismissed."
> 
> The patent was granted by the European Patent Office to the United
> States Department of Agriculture and the chemical multinational, W.R.
> Grace, in 1995. Since then, Dr. Shiva, along with the International
> Federation of Organic Agriculture Movement and the Green Party in
> European Parliament, had been opposing it.