Protecting Indigenous Knowledge
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چکیده
The controversies surrounding intellectual property protection are most obvious when it comes to protecting indigenous knowledge. The firmly entrenched patenting laws in the developed world provide recognition and economic monopoly to individual inventors. Consequently, large and small companies have been able to appropriate the economic benefits from the technological knowledge protected through patents. Many of them however have exploited knowledge that has existed in indigenous cultures for thousands of years. An example of this is the neem tree, well renown for its properties since ancient times.
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