I don't have numbers. You can look at the etcgroup web site, for example.
http://www.etcgroup.org/article.asp?newsid=353
The idea is that a patent is cheap and the payoff can be great. So, bioprospecting is big business.
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 07:23:46PM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Part two of the question: how much of it goes on?
>
> Michael Perelman wrote:
>
> >it is true.
> >
> >
> >On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 06:32:19PM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
> >> Hari Kumar wrote:
> >>
> >> > However, I do seem to recall that various plants in threatened
> >> >areas such as the Amazon were being 'snapped' up & 'patented'
> >>
> >> Standard story in almost every anti-globalization rant. Is it really
> >> true, and if so, how much of it goes on?
> >>
> >> Doug
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