Who Gets The Credit?

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Aarohi explores the flip side of legislation pertaining to Intellectual Property Rights(IPR). When an indigenous practice is the basis for development of a new practice that gets a patent, then under IPR, which entity should get the credit? A farmer community exists and an outsider picks up a seed from the community and adds a gene to the seed, then who should get the credit? The farmer community or the person who adds the gene? The inherent snag in the Intellectual Property Rights ...

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