The Indian Patent Office rejected a request from a Canadian company for a sexual toy that violated \"public order and ethics\" and that the company requested a patent for the vibrator.
The patent office quoted India\'s obscene law as saying that the law \"has never been actively involved in the concept of sexual pleasure \".
The patent office says sex toys are considered obscene and illegal in India.
But a 2011 court ruling says sex toys cannot be considered obscene. An Ontario-
According to Shamnad Basheer, a company based in India called Standard Innovation has applied for a patent for a new vibrator in India, to prevent visiting professors of generic local generic drugs at the National Law School in India in the market, a book on public health laws is being written.
On April, the patent office rejected the request, saying that sexual toys would result in \"obscene and moral deprivation of individuals \".
\"These toys are not considered useful or productive.
\"Most of the law sees these acts as morally degrading,\" the office said . \".
\"The legal perception of sexual toys is negative and has never been actively involved in the concept of sexual pleasure . \".
The office also cited Article 377 of the Indian criminal code (IPC), a 155-year-old colonial-
The law of the era of prohibition of same-sex and unnatural sexual intercourse rejected the patent.
The Supreme Court is currently hearing an appeal dismissing the provisions of the law.
\"Why should the patent office deal with ethical decisions?
Officials trained in technical science should not decide whether an invention is ethical or immoral . \"
Sex toys are publicly sold online, as are on a thriving black market in India.
Last year, a survey of online stores selling sex toys in India found that 62% of buyers of sex toys in India are men, and the remaining 38% are women.