{"id":1154,"date":"2001-08-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-08-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/08\/28\/2001-08-28-india-us-fight-on-basmati-rice-is-mostly-settled\/"},"modified":"2001-08-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-08-28T12:00:00","slug":"2001-08-28-india-us-fight-on-basmati-rice-is-mostly-settled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/08\/28\/2001-08-28-india-us-fight-on-basmati-rice-is-mostly-settled\/","title":{"rendered":"India-U.S. Fight On Basmati Rice Is Mostly Settled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2001\/08\/25\/business\/worldbusiness\/25RICE.html\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>TEXAS, USA, Aug. 25, 2001: A Texas company&#8217;s attempt to patent a type of basmati rice became a touchstone for anti-globalization protest in the 1990&#8217;s. But the long-simmering issue was largely settled this week, when the United States granted a narrower patent to the company, Ricetec of Alvin, Texas. The United States originally granted the patent in 1997, touching a nerve in India, leading to a challenge by the Indian government. After this week&#8217;s decision, the Indian government said it saw no reason for further dispute. The new patent is limited to a few variants of the rice and will not hamper export of its own basmati product, the government concluded.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE TEXAS, USA, Aug. 25, 2001: A Texas company&#8217;s attempt to patent a type of basmati rice became,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}