UN Members Sign Biopiracy Treaty: End to Bogus Western Patents? | Vantage with Palki Sharma
All 193 United Nations member states have signed a new treaty on intellectual property rights involving genetic resources. The law is designed to stop instances of biopiracy. Biopiracy is when an individual or firm tries to patent the ancestral knowledge of indigenous people, usually from the global south. There are numerous examples of the west patenting ways to process medicinal herbs or crops or animals, which were developed by communities in the global south centuries ago. The west tried to patent and exploit traditional ways to use turmeric, neem, the hoodia cactus, quinoa and countless other products. The new anti-biopiracy treaty mandates that all patents give credit to any traditional techniques that were used as inspiration.
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25 авг 2024