India foils UK Company’s bid to patent its traditional knowledge for treating hair loss

India has foiled UK based company Pangaea Laboratories Limiteds bid to patent use of pine bark, turmeric and tea for treating hair loss. India was practiced to guard its period-lucky knowledge after Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL), a unit of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) had filed pre-succeed to enemy down UK based company along upfront prior-art evidences using these 3 natural ingredients. In February 2011, Pangaea Laboratories Limited had filed patent application at European Patent office (EPO) upon a medicinal composition for treating hair loss which mainly contained pine bark, turmeric and green tea. It should be noted in Indian systems of medicine subsequent to Ayurveda and Unani, it has been proved that above three natural ingredients are being used as a treatment for hair loss, to the front ancient times. Till date TKDL under the aegis of CSIR has achieved realization in protecting Indias epoch-fortunate knowledge in approximately 200 such cases without any cost. Earlier, TKDL furthermore had foiled an attempt of Colgate-Palmolive Company to patent a mouthwash formula containing herb extract from Nutmeg- Jayaphal which is traditionally used in India as medicine to cure oral diseases.