Question

Why do the so-called “innovations and discoveries” of modern pharmaceutical and agricultural research not qualify as new inventions?

Options

• They are based on emergency provisions of patent terms

• They are based on centuries of knowledge stolen from traditional societies

• They are based on the financial richness of developed nations

• They are based only on research and development initiatives

Answer 1

These so-called innovations and discoveries rely on knowledge that traditional societies have held for centuries. Therefore, they do not qualify as genuinely new inventions when that knowledge has been stolen.