New international treaty aims to address the issue of ‘biopiracy’ through patent protection for traditional knowledge

During a conference in Geneva, the member states of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) reached an agreement on a new treaty aimed at preventing the for-profit piracy of traditional knowledge.…

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