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- RiceTec, a Texas-based company, obtained a patent in 1997 for a strain of long-grain rice they developed by cross-breeding basmati rice from India and Pakistan. This raised issues of biopiracy and geographical indication protection. - India challenged the patent, arguing that basmati refers specifically to aromatic rice from India and Pakistan, not a novel invention. Granting the patent violated international agreements and would allow RiceTec to usurp India
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