THE IPKAT PATENT OF THE MONTH: NOVEMBER 2003

Population control in China is likely to remain a problem if the patent application filed in 1994 by Hao Hongfeng is anything to go by. According to the abstract, his invention is for an “external-use type anticonceptive drug” made of “traditional Chinese medicinal pregnancy-proof incense”. The invention, which can be made in the form of powder and emulsion, is either inhaled or spread on the Jenchung acupoint (the midline of the nasal philtrum, one third of the way from the nose to the edge of the upper lip) or the belly-button, it can “attain the goal of birth control”. The good news is that this medicine has no toxic side-effect. The bad news is that it has a success rate of only 92%.

The IPKat, noting the steps that WIPO is currently taking to protect folklore and traditional knowledge, wonders if steps will also have to be taken to protect us against the effects of such knowledge.

Philtrums here, here , here and here
Belly buttons here, here and here
More on contraception here, here and here


THE IPKAT PATENT OF THE MONTH: NOVEMBER 2003 THE IPKAT PATENT OF THE MONTH: NOVEMBER 2003 Reviewed by Verónica Rodríguez Arguijo on Friday, November 21, 2003 Rating: 5

No comments:

All comments must be moderated by a member of the IPKat team before they appear on the blog. Comments will not be allowed if the contravene the IPKat policy that readers' comments should not be obscene or defamatory; they should not consist of ad hominem attacks on members of the blog team or other comment-posters and they should make a constructive contribution to the discussion of the post on which they purport to comment.

It is also the IPKat policy that comments should not be made completely anonymously, and users should use a consistent name or pseudonym (which should not itself be defamatory or obscene, or that of another real person), either in the "identity" field, or at the beginning of the comment. Current practice is to, however, allow a limited number of comments that contravene this policy, provided that the comment has a high degree of relevance and the comment chain does not become too difficult to follow.

Learn more here: http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/p/want-to-complain.html

Powered by Blogger.