biopiracy
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Decolonising knowledge & KM
Patents based on traditional knowledge are often ‘biopiracy’. A new international treaty will finally combat this
Can you patent something Indigenous peoples already know about? Too often, the answer is yes - but moves are afoot…
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Decolonising knowledge & KM
Patently insufficient: a new intellectual property treaty does little to protect Māori traditional knowledge
A new treaty might improve the patent system, but is unlikely to improve protection of Indigenous knowledge itself.
