Intellectual Property Consultants

Be prepared to hold your excitement next time you walk in to your favourite restaurant to order a “Hyderabadi Biryani”. It’s quite likely that the waiter may ask you a question “Sir/Madam, Would you like to have the patented biryani or generic biryani”. Hopefully, you may not get stunned as you are familiar with “patented drugs” and “generic drugs”. I came to know from a journalist friend that some  Biryani Maker Association from Hyderabad is about to apply for GI registration for “Hyderabadi Biryani”, taking inspiration from Mr. V Natarajan, then Assistant registrar of GI (Chennai), who told in June 2008 that “Somebody should also file a GI for Hyderabadi biryani and pearls” . It will be a cake walk for the Biryani Maker Association if the present assistant registrar Mr. G.L. Verma also has the same opinion in this respect.  I will have no surprise if some BIRYANI also is granted IPR in country, which allowed patenting of deity and Temple Offering (Tiruppathi Laddu).

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