The Indian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the European Patent Office (EPO) recently signed an access agreement under which the EPO has agreed to consult the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) before granting patents. The TKDL is a list of traditionally known Indian drug formulations. It contains a 24 million-page searchable database that translates text from Sanskrit, Urdu, and other regional languages into English, German, French, Spanish and Japanese. The agreement is likely to result in at least 40 European patent filings, which may otherwise have been successful, being rejected by the EPO.
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