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'Veda' registered as trademark in Germany

New Delhi Dec. 30. After `Vastu,' it has now been found that over 40 Indian concepts including Veda, Ayurveda and the Gayatri mantra have been registered as trademarks in Germany.

Ashwinie Kumar Bansal, Director of the Vastu Shastra Institute, said here that these trademarks have been registered by several organisations including Samhita, which is run by followers of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

While Veda had been registered as early as in 1984, Gayatri had been registered very recently. Mr. Bansal, an arbitrator on the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) since 1996, said that he would soon approach the Government and the WIPO on this issue. This institute had last week discovered that Samhita had registered `Vastu' as a trademark sometime in 1998-99.

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