In India, the product patent regime in the pharmaceutical industry became applicable from

India introduced product patents for pharmaceuticals, food and chemicals with effect from 1 January 2005, first by the Patents (Amendment) Ordinance, 2004 and then by the Patents (Amendment) Act, 2005, to meet its obligations under the TRIPS Agreement. Before that date only process patents were available for drugs, so the later dates are wrong and 1 January 2000 is too early.