Grave Diggers, "Immoral" Patents and the NBRA

In a previous post, Prashant highlighted a recent bill proposing the creation of a national biotech regulatory authority (NBRA) and noted:"The NBRA Bill confers upon the regulator the power to regulate research, manufacture, import and marketing of genetically modified organisms. As of now the entire process relating to the regulation of genetically modified organisms is quite ad-hoc and it is exactly this problem that the NBRA seeks to solve by providing a single window clearance mechanism. "SpicyIP recently spoke with an expert in this area, Dr Sivaramjani Thambisetti who teaches IP at the London School of Economics (LSE). Her profile can be found here.Siva was kind enough to share a letter that she had written to the Ministry in this regard, advocating that the "morality" bar to patenting be resuscitated and that the... [read full story]