( ) -q-25- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “like tropical plants.” U.N. member countries have concluded a new treaty to help ensure that traditional knowledge about genetic resources is properly traced. [CutID: <Cuts> UN-GENETIC-RESOURCES-house-q-FRIam.mp3 Time: 25s Title: UN-GENETIC-RESOURCES-house-q-FRIam Out-cue: like tropical plants] TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. ———————————– VERBATIM: It marks the first time the 193 […]
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UN countries adopt treaty to better trace origins of genetic resources under global patent system
( ) -q-25- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “like tropical plants.”
U.N. member countries have concluded a new treaty to help ensure that traditional knowledge about genetic resources is properly traced.
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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting.
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VERBATIM: It marks the first time the 193 member states of the U.N.’s World Intellectual Property Organization have reached agreement on patent protections about historic knowledge from indigenous cultures. Those cultures have long been exploited by colonists, traders and others. The treaty doesn’t address compensation for indigenous communities for their historic know-how about products drawn from things like tropical plants.