importance of biopiracy
Dear Student,
There is no such importance of Biopiracy, but it is the wrong concept which is followed by some bioprospectors.
Many natural things are highly beneficial. The local residents of the place where the resources are available are found to have knowledge about these things and they carry on the information regarding their usage, from one generation to the other. This knowledge may be recorded or else may just be verbally passed on. Now, suppose a few representatives of a company arrive at the local place where the good is available, gather knowledge by talking with the local people, and then apply for a patent on that useful thing. Once patented the product becomes the sole property of these people. They can thus earn a lot using the useful substance. In this process, they cheated the local people of their useful natural substance as well as their knowledge. This is called biopiracy. Here, goods having useful natural substances are patented by cheating the indigenous people who had been using this knowledge since years.
The two ways to get rid of biopiracy are:
1. There should be strict legal laws that can guide regarding what can be included or excluded from Patentability. Natural things are highly beneficial to common people should be excluded from patents.
2. There should be a digital library that possesses information of all the natural and useful products, made available everywhere to fight biopiracy and unethical patents.
Hope this information will clear your doubts about the topic.
If you have any more doubts just ask here on the forum and our experts will try to help you out as soon as possible.
Regards
There is no such importance of Biopiracy, but it is the wrong concept which is followed by some bioprospectors.
Many natural things are highly beneficial. The local residents of the place where the resources are available are found to have knowledge about these things and they carry on the information regarding their usage, from one generation to the other. This knowledge may be recorded or else may just be verbally passed on. Now, suppose a few representatives of a company arrive at the local place where the good is available, gather knowledge by talking with the local people, and then apply for a patent on that useful thing. Once patented the product becomes the sole property of these people. They can thus earn a lot using the useful substance. In this process, they cheated the local people of their useful natural substance as well as their knowledge. This is called biopiracy. Here, goods having useful natural substances are patented by cheating the indigenous people who had been using this knowledge since years.
The two ways to get rid of biopiracy are:
1. There should be strict legal laws that can guide regarding what can be included or excluded from Patentability. Natural things are highly beneficial to common people should be excluded from patents.
2. There should be a digital library that possesses information of all the natural and useful products, made available everywhere to fight biopiracy and unethical patents.
Hope this information will clear your doubts about the topic.
If you have any more doubts just ask here on the forum and our experts will try to help you out as soon as possible.
Regards