India realised the need to protect their centres in a unique and reputed products through geographical indication when an American company was given a patent of basmati rice and India had to resort to an expensive procedure of challenging the patent in the US Court of law this necessity today India to enact the geographical indications of goods Act 1999 to 2003 to give protection for geographical indications sui generis legislation --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nirmit-verma/support