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Correspondence
Nature 406, 455 (3 August 2000) | doi:10.1038/35020244
How can the developing world protect itself from biotech patent-holders?
John H. Barton1 & Joseph Strauss2
- George E. Osborne Professor of Law, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
- Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law, Marstallplatz 1, D-80539 Munich, Germany
Biotechnology offers great potential for improving health and food production in the developing world, and achieving both will require significant cooperation between the public and the private sectors.Such cooperation is being made more difficult by the accumulation of intellectual property rights (IPRs).
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