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    Souvenir of the Klondyke

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    Illustrated and published by H.J. Goetzma

    Drafting the Genetic Resource Act of Taiwan

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    From the nineteen sixties onward, more and more governmental institutions and biotech companies of developed countries put their effort on exploring genetic resources, mostly in developing or underdeveloped countries. They invest huge capitals to collect genetic resources for the screening of potential chemicals. These activities are often known as bio-prospecting. In fact, genetic resources may be utilized in all respects of human lives, especially in the sectors of agriculture and pharmaceutical. However, once the resources poor but technology advanced countries were able to make invention from genetic materials they acquired form the south countries, frequently they would ensure their rights of the invention, or sometimes even on these genetic resources by intellectual property rights, which has been called “biopiracy”, a phrase coined by NGOs and southern countries. South-North conflict on genetic resources has been since a hot issue in various international fora
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