An Indian bill, which encourages the commercialisation of intellectual property (IP) from government-financed R&D for the larger public good, is being widely debated, with some experts claiming that it is flawed and could stymie potential gains from the open source drug discovery model.
The proposed legislation, referred to as The Protection and Utilisation of Public Funded Intellectual Property Bill, 2008, and modelled along the lines of the US Bayh-Dole Act, is currently
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