Ancient Healing Traditions Fight Patents

For thousands of years, Indian villagers have used an extract from seeds of the neem tree as an insecticide. So when a U.S. company patented a process for producing the substance in 1994, India reacted with outrage.

After spending millions of dollars in legal fees to successfully overturn the patent, India's government is creating a 30-million-page database of traditional knowledge to fend off entrepreneurs trying to patent the country's ancient lore. Full Story

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