PMID- 25395703
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20150629
LR  - 20190609
IS  - 2505-0044 (Electronic)
IS  - 2505-0044 (Linking)
VI  - 11
IP  - 5
DP  - 2014
TI  - The plights of African resources patenting through the lenses of the World Trade 
      Organisation: an assessment of South Africa's rooibos tea's labyrith journey.
PG  - 41-7
AB  - BACKGROUND: Just as developing states are blessed with natural resources capable 
      of transforming their economies into a positive direction, the imposed World 
      Trade Organisation's (WTO) mores continue to relegate them to the status of 
      underdevelopment. The consequences of this on investment, trade and finance in 
      Third World States (TWSs), especially Africa, are disarticulation of the economy, 
      exploitation, disinvestment, unemployment, political instability and 
      unavailability of relevant technology to move TWSs forward, among others. This 
      gives rise to the politics behind Rooibos (Aspalathus linearis) patenting (a 
      medicinal plant found only in South Africa) by various multinational corporations 
      (MNCs). MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study adopted political economy approach with 
      emphasis on both primary and secondary sources of data collection using content 
      analysis. RESULT: There is need to adhere strictly to the issues of intellectual 
      property rights (IPRs), geographical indications (GIs), prior informed consent 
      (PIC), and access and sharing benefits (ASB). These have not been observed by the 
      western states because of their economic of neo-imperialism to the disadvantage 
      of developing states. CONCLUSION: This paper recommends that there is need for a 
      regional regime such as African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation 
      (ARIPO), on indigenous knowledge (IK) to patent the continental biodiversity 
      resources.
FAU - Amusan, Lere
AU  - Amusan L
AD  - Department of Politics and International Relations, North West University, South 
      Africa.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20140823
PL  - Nigeria
TA  - Afr J Tradit Complement Altern Med
JT  - African journal of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicines : AJTCAM
JID - 101232990
RN  - 0 (Plant Preparations)
RN  - 0 (Tea)
SB  - IM
MH  - Africa
MH  - *Aspalathus
MH  - Biodiversity
MH  - *Commerce/ethics
MH  - *Developing Countries
MH  - Humans
MH  - Intellectual Property
MH  - Internationality
MH  - *Patents as Topic
MH  - Plant Preparations/*economics
MH  - Population Groups
MH  - *Social Justice
MH  - Tea
PMC - PMC4202516
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Biopiracy
OT  - GI
OT  - IP
OT  - PIC
OT  - Rooibos
OT  - WTO
EDAT- 2014/11/15 06:00
MHDA- 2015/06/30 06:00
PMCR- 2015/08/23
CRDT- 2014/11/15 06:00
PHST- 2014/11/15 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/11/15 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/06/30 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2015/08/23 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - jAJT.v11.i5.pg41 [pii]
AID - 10.4314/ajtcam.v11i5.7 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Afr J Tradit Complement Altern Med. 2014 Aug 23;11(5):41-7. doi: 
      10.4314/ajtcam.v11i5.7. eCollection 2014.