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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: Chinese Province Crafts Pioneering Law to Thwart Biopiracy
Richard Stone
Officials in southern China's Guizhou Province are hoping to head off future attempts at "biopiracy"--the plunder of natural resources--by enshrining the protection of indigenous knowledge into law.