Biothai wades into patents row
An advocacy group is calling on the Department of Intellectual Property to better regulate the patenting of cannabis extracts in traditional Thai medicines.
Biodiversity Sustainable Agriculture Food Sovereignty Action Thailand’s (Biothai) move followed a call by a group of activists last week, who urged the department to withdraw drug patent requests for cannabis extracts, after they found that a number of foreign pharmaceutical companies had filed 12 patent requests with the department.
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Bangkok Post Reporter
