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Mashelkar quits patents expert panel

Mumbai, March. 17 (PTI): Eminent scientist R A Mashelkar today resigned as head of a technical expert committee that looked into patents amendments.

In a letter faxed to Industrial Policy and Promotion Secretary Ajay Dua, Mashelkar said he was "deeply pained by the fact that doubts, explicit or implicit", have been expressed about his "integrity, competence and motives".

In the light of "personalised attack", Mashelkar said he was relinquishing the position of Committee Chairman and had dissociated completely from the technical expert group on patent law issues.

He had retired as Director General of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research last year.

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