Assalamu'alaikum
Sanak rantaunet nan ambo hormati,
Akhirnyo dari perjuangan panjang, PAN Indonesia dimano ambo bakarajo jo
jaringannyo nan ado di 55 negara, berhasil mambatalkan paten perusahaan kimia dan
kosmetik Shieseido, dari Japang atas tanaman ubek-ubek asli Indonesia nan
alah lamo digunokan urang-urang gaek awak saisuk.
Labih jalehnyo, silakan di baco di Kompas hari ini.
Wassalam
fendi KOTO
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Shiseido Canceled Biopatenting Indonesia's Spices
PAN Indonesia still investigate another case; possible conflict with
Malaysia
Dear friends,
Indonesia version, in the last section
"Shiseido has been considered to be rather concientious company compared
with others such as Amway, and it is first time that I have heard such
biopyracy. So, I do not have enough information to judge whether we should fight
against Shiseido or not. Also, without proper information,I can not arrange any
lawyer for you," part of a Japenese NGO activists on 23 October 1999.
"I was received your mail,but I'm sorry I'm not full understanding the
matter.cause I'm not close the connection.and also I never product cosmetic
item.some thing wrong?," a replied from middle rank officer of JICA, Japan
Inernational Cooperation Agency, in Indonesia 12 October 1999.
Two statements above replied by Japanese to PAN Indonesia when received
messages of campaign against biopiracy by Shiseido to several native herbal crops
with the Indonesian' names.
Yesterday, as reported by Kompas, the biggest daily newspaper, that Shiseido
hase announced cancelation of biopatenting of the Indonesian spices. In the
last two and half years the Japanese cosmetics company has received
bombardment campaign messages from PAN Indonesia and other concern civil society
organisation. Let's see what the company will do in the very near future.
Shiseido has got double patent protection both in JPO and EPO.
rgds,
Riza VT
Shiseido Biopiracy to traditional herbal plants of Indonesia
SHISEIDO
Feature article: BIO_PIRACY/LIZ SHERIDAN
in healthyoptiops magazine New Zealands
In our post-modern, North-South economically divided world, treasures
still exist. Since ancient times Indonesian Emperors employed traditional Jamu
herbs prescribed by herbal doctors to maintain good health, radiance, a
youthful appearance, libido and vigour. Jamu, comprising over a thousand
formulae, remained the sole property of the Royal Court until modern times, when it
was finally released for public sale.*1
Now Jamu is under threat ... and Pesticide Action Network*2 researcher,
Riza Tjahjadi explains that the Shiseido Corporation of Japan,*3 cosmetic
and skincare Trans National Corporation (TNC) has patented eleven traditional
Jamu healing herbs. Since 1989 (it should be 1999, RVT) they are
double-patented in both Japan and Europe, reports Mr Tjahjadi. It is not the herbs
themselves that have been patented but chemical compounds within the herbs, rare
compounds unique to traditional Jamu, which effect skin-whitening, hair
restoration and skin rejuvenation.
Every time shoppers purchase skin-whitening products from Shiseido's
`UV White Range', or the Skin-Whitening Formula priced at circa $150 for a 50ml
pot, we are unwittingly supporting Shiseido's corporate theft.
`This bio-piracy by Shiseido means they've stolen what belonged to our
traditional healers, stolen our farmers knowledge, their seeds and systems.'
says Mr Tjahjadi who is lobbying for protective and preventative legislation
and insists that, `We would like to educate our farmers about their rights,
and their ownership rights of their traditional crops. We call farmers crops
our `traditional seeds', we say these are `community intellectual rights' ...
and we would like to have protection for our property against such
bio-piracy.'
Fact is that the world's small farmers and poorest most populous
nations don't have the mega-buck muscle to pay for patent rights. Probably they
never felt compelled to patent indigenous varieties, because small farmers such
as Jamu herb growers in Indonesia are, `stewards of the earth' and believe
they own the seeds and plants anyway. The last thing such a small farmer would
choose would be to prove that seeds and agricultural systems, inherited down
the generations, are his intellectual property. In the light of all the
patenting and bureaucratic jargon we must ask, why has protecting our farmers'
traditional `intellectual property rights' (IPR's) become so controversial?
Controversy surrounds all traditional ownership currently because
ordinary people have become players in a global biotech battle. The stakes are
very high, indeed the prize is our natural heritage thinly disguised as a
genetic commodity by TNC's and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Mr Tjahjadi is
in good company, his grievances are the same as those that fuelled the Seattle
protest when 40,000 people rallied against WTO policies in 1999. In Prague
last year 15,000 protesters again marched against WTO policies.*4 The WTO is
targeted because of the sinister role it plays in assisting TNC's to steal
with impunity. Protesters fear however, that it could soon be too late for
direct action......
The WTO was inaugurated in 1995. With international headquarters in
Geneva, Switzerland and a staff of 550 they, `administer and enforce more than
20 international agreements, resolve trade disputes between states and provide
a forum for global trade negotiations.'*5 One of these international
agreements is the, `trade related intellectual property rights,' or TRIPS council.
The TRIPS legislation is vehemently disputed because its article 27.3, allows
patenting of life-forms, plants and micro-organisms, and micro-biological
materials.*6,7
But first let's look at how the TRIPS legislation can theoretically
benefit TNC's. Simplifying a complex procedure such as genetic modification (GM)
we could say that bio-chemists normally splice a `sticky end' (a grouping of
molecular material including a virus) into an original cell, grow a GM
variety of the original, then submit patenting applications as if a new `life
form' was created. After which they market it globally as if it belonged to them,
and WTO protects their business interests through the TRIPS legslation.
Simple sticky ends.......
It is clear that most of WTO's 135 member nations joined in order to
protect their national economic interests against various aspects of economic
fascism. WTO's role is that of power-broker in an unelected world government
intent on protecting the corporate/elitist agendas and business interests of
the New World Order (NWO). NWO comprises WTO, the World Bank, United Nations,
International Monetary Fund, the Business Roundtable, Club of Rome and a
massive web of various interlinked but unelected organisations (including
recently formed Food Authorities, Health Regulatory bodies, and soon the WTO's
`General Agreement on Trade in Services' (GATS) will mean that the world's public
services*8 will also be corporatised.)
Many of these organisations are partially funded by taxpayers money or
government grants, effectively taxpayers subsidize the unelected `shadow'
world government, the NWO. Many business networks exist within the NWO
infrastructure, such as those that legitimize the theft and confiscation of global
intellectual property rights (IPR).
In the Philippines the theft of Asian rice varieties is one aspect of
bio-piracy being challenged by Lawyers, Benjamin Ramos Jr. and Mario Denito.
As Board Members of MASIPAG a Non Government Organisation (NGO) they represent
the interests of 900,000 farmers, farming families, scientists and other
legal experts. MASIPAG like PAN is part of a larger grouping of NGO's in the
region and throughout the world fighting to protect local small farmers rights.
The stake are so high that all small farmers obviously need NGO assistance to
retain ownership of traditional systems, resources and traditional seed
varieties.
According to Mr Ramos, `Half a million people signed a petition to
register their solidarity against the patenting of life. We had a MASIPAG
conference in February 1999 and presented that petition to the Department of
Agriculture and also the Department of Agrarian Reform.'
The biotech-TNC's would be well advised to listen to the opinions of
both protesters and NGO representatives, but they are too busy reproducing
themselves. SYNGENTA the world's biggest biotech-TNC was created when NOVARTIS
and ZENECA merged on 10th October 1999 in Basel, Switzerland, (with European
Union permission). They plan to integrate seed corporations into their `life
sciences' division, chemical divisions into a `crop protection' group, and
also operate pharmaceutical `healthcare' corporations. They hope to re-invent
new forms of pharmaceuticals and are `moving from the seed business to food and
pharma'*9. AVENTIS is the second largest biotech-TNC, and now MONSANTO,
until recently bio-tech market leader, is third largest.
According to Bill Wadsworth, Technical Director of Iceland Food PLC
(UK) itself a corporation manufacturing and retailing food, every biotech
market-leader is vying to be the first to `spin' protein in laboratories within ten
years, then to market laboratory-food globally. These corporations will make
their true GM business agenda known to the public slowly and deliberately.
They might even engineer a few major global food disasters so,
`standard-equivalent,*10 safe and nutritionally excellent GM lab-food' will be welcomed
into a currently GM wary market to ease shortages.
We must never forget the biotech-TNC's gruesome past. As the world's
chemical giants they sprayed agri-chemicals into soil and food-chain, forcing
it down our throats for the past fifty years.*11 Although patenting and GM is
the second wave, the first wave of chemical madness still severely chemically
poisons 3million people annually, and more than 20,000 of those may die*12
Great advertising for such a dedicated good-news industry! For example rural
suicide is a plague in countries like Sri Lanka where impoverished rice
farmers often use chemicals to poison themselves, their debt/desperation cycle
often caused, ironically by chemical farming.*13
In the past five decades the world's traditional organic agricultural
systems were supposedly `upgraded', but really they were usurped by greedy
multi-national chemical companies interested in profit. This `industrial
advancement' meant reliance on agri-chemicals and artificial chemical fertilizer
inputs, which were of course `safe and effective'. These were essential to
maintain newly-introduced broad-acre farming systems, producing so-called
`conventional' food which Joe Public was assured would be safe and, `feed the world.'
Today's GM-marketing uses the same cynical `feed the world' slogan, and
biotech-TNC's re-assure public of `safety' and `benefits'.......
TNC-biotechs may be challenged to win the lab-food race but in Southern
lands the unrelenting legal battle to save many varieties of indigenous
plants continues. Rice is the staple diet for over half the world's population
and also under greatest threat from patenting and GM.
According to MASIPAG researchers approximately 160 bio-tech patents are
owned by TNC's, and 13 bio-tech corporations also hold most of the patents
on rice. Since May 2000, according to MASIPAGO the International Rice Research
Institute funded a project to grow a trial crop of "BB rice" so-called
because it is genetically engineered to resist bacterial blight. MASIPAG opposed
the project and Mr Ramos explains that BB rice will inevitably contaminate
other rice varieties. There should, he insists, be a minimum ten year
moratorium on GE because it endangers existing crops and food security.
Amongst the bleak `sticky ends' of GM there is some good news for
Indian Basmati Rice growers, reported in the Hindustan Times, New Delhi, India on
September 27th 2000:
`In a major success for India's effort to retain its commercial
interest on Basmati rice exports, Ricetec Inc, a Texas-based US company, which had
obtained a patent for `Basmati rice lines and grains', has been forced to
withdraw certain claims in its US patent.'.....`Ricetec Inc has now withdrawn the
claims, which could have adversely affected the commercial interests of
Basmati rice exporters.'
And Mr Tjahjadi adds, `Bio-piracy is already happening everywhere, not
just here .... why should we have to pay for using our own traditional
herbs?' Southern and indigenous groups, he hopes, will be able to defend themselves
against bio-piracy and GM. But on the other hand TNC's would not feed the
world; bring safe food to the marketplace; pay restitution for reducing
bio-diversity and fertility by 50%;*14 or compensate poisoned people's families or
infertile couples. That is why billions of global citizens care about the
ravages of bio-piracy and the TRIPS legislation, and some are brave enough to
mobilise against economic fascism.
rgds,
Riza V. Tjahjadi
PAN Indonesia
Jl. Persada Raya No. 1 Menteng Dalam
Jakarta 12870 Indonesia
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No Patent No Cure No Patent No Beauty
No Patent No Food
They claimed
We fight for
Farmers' Rights, and Community Intellectual
Rights
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"The government will support people's initiative against biopiracy. I and
the minister on research and technology have also already discussed about
issue of biopiracy, " said the director general of Intellectual Property Rights,
Zen Umar Purba, as response to PAN Indonesia, when asked the government
position to biopiracy, at terrace of Acacia Hotel after his presentation in the
ASEAN Workshop on the TRIPS Agreement and Traditional Medicine13 February
2001, Jakarta.
However, PAN Indonesia insisted that the government should responsible and
taking care the issue at court
level.
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Shiseido Biopiracy to Traditional herbal plants of Indonesia
Background: The use of plants for healing in Indonesia dates back to
prehistoric times. It has a long history of traditional use, handed down orally from
generation to generation. The oldest and the most widespread is the jamu -
an Indonesian term referring to the indigenous herbal medicine and system,
which originated in Java and eventually spread to neighboring Bali and the rest
of Indonesia. Recently, jamu stand for the industrial traditional herbal.
Jamu is traditionally used by the Javanese not just to cure a certain disease
but more so to restore equilibrium through the human body's own resistance -
prevention is also another word. Among its multiple uses are the maintenance of
good health, beauty care, to regulate menstruation, and weight loss.
Patent: Indonesia's herbal medicines and knowledge has become the subject of
a series of Japanese patent applications by Shiseido Co. Ltd., Japan's
largest beauty products company. One of the patents being sought is on hair tonic
based on Cabe Jawa (Piperaceae) while another claims a composition based on a
crude medicine composed of Orang aring (Eclipta alba), Jangkang (Sterculia
foetida), Meniran (Phyllanthuss niruri), Mrico bolong (Melaleuca leucandindra)
and Temu kunci (Boesenbergia pandurata). Both of these patents are based on
the traditional medicine and knowledge of Indonesian people. In 1995 alone,
more than 35 herbal plants from Indonesia have been the subjects of more than
20 patent applications by Shiseido in Japan.
Lempuyang, another popular cosmetic jamu, has also been a subject of many
patents (WO09963950A1, JP10029924A, JP09169628A, JP09169627A, JP09071522A;
patents as issued by Japan Patent office) for its anti-aging properties and
moisture-retention properties. Already, in 1999, Shiseido successfully launched a
new line of skin whitening products based on lempuyang extract.
(challenge: filling out the traditional use of some of these plants
especially Cabe Jawa and Lempuyang - as to determine whether it is the same property
patented by Shiseido).
EPO (European Patent Office) also issued similar patent for Shiseido, more
complete with patent holder:
Here are the European patents for your information.... (I only included the
first page and the claims. The description of the field of invention is quite
long. Just tell me if you want it to be sent also).
SCALP CARE COMPOSITIONS
Patent Number: EP0914816
Publication date: 1999-05-12
Inventor(s): IDETA RITSURO (JP); IFUKU OHJI (JP); KOJIMA NAO (JP);
MORIYA YOSHIKI (JP); SHIBATA YUKI (JP); SOMA TSUTOMU (JP); TSUJI
YOSHIHARU (JP)
Applicant(s): SHISEIDO CO LTD (JP)
Requested Patent: WO9852516
Application Number: EP19980919625 19980515
Priority Number(s): WO1998JP02162 19980515; JP19970144704 19970519;
JP19970207246 19970716; JP19970207248 19970716; JP19970268070 19970912;
JP19970322093 19971107
Abstract
A composition for use on the scalp, a composition for promoting tyrosinase
activity, and a composition for preventing gray hair which characteristically
contain extracts from various plants. The composition for use on the scalp of
the present invention can effectively prevent dandruff and is safe. Also,
the composition for use on the scalp of the present invention is particularly
effective in preventing and treating dandruff which is generated due to scalp
stimulation by surfactants such as shampoos, rinses, etc. It also is highly
effective at preventing scalp itching. Also, the present invention provides a
composition with a superior tyrosinase activity promoting action and gray
hair prevention action.
Claims
1. A composition for use on the scalp which characteristically contains one
or more types of extracts chosen from among extracts of the following plants.
(1) Kayu rapet (scientific name: Parameria laevigata)
(2) Kemukus (scientific name: Piper cubeba)
(3) Tempuyung (scientific name: Sonchus arvensis L.)
(4) Belantas (scientific name: Pluchea indica L.)
(5) Mesoyi (scientific name: Massoia aromatica Becc.)
(6) Pule (scientific name: Alstonia scholaris)
(7) Pulowaras (scientific name: Alycia reindwartii BI.)
(8) Sintok (scientific name: Cinnamomum sintoc BI.)
2. The composition for use on the scalp of claim 1 wherein the blend ratio
of the plant extract is 0.001-10.0 wt%.
3. A composition for use on the scalp which contains as an effective
ingredient an extract from a plant of the Apocynaceae family, genus Parameria.
4. The composition for use on the scalp of claim 3 wherein the plant of
genus Parameria is Parameria laevigata (Kayu rapet).
5. A composition for promoting tyrosinase activity which contains as an
effective ingredient an extract from a plant of the Apocynaceae family, genus
Parameria.
6. The composition for promoting tyrosinase activity of claim 5 wherein the
plant of genus Parameria is Parameria laevigata (Kayu rapet).
7. A composition for preventing gray hair which contains as an effective
ingredient an extract from a plant of the Apocynaceae family, genus Parameria.
8. The composition for preventing gray hair of claim 7 wherein the plant of
genus Parameria is Parameria laevigata (Kayu rapet).
9. A composition for use of the scalp which contains as an effective
ingredient a plant extract wherein the effective ingredient is at least one type of
extract derived from a plant of a genus chosen from a group consisting of the
Ericaceae family, genus Arctostaphylos, the Chenopodiaceae family, genus
Chenopodium and genus Poterium and the Ericaceae family, genus Gautheria.
10. The composition for use of the scalp of claim 9 wherein the plant of the
Ericaceae family, genus Arctostaphylos, is Pinguica (scientific name:
Chenopodium Ambrosioides L.); the plant of the Chenopodiaceae family, genus
Chenopodium, is Aritaso (in Japanese; scientific name: Chenopodium Ambrosioides L.);
the plant of genus Poterium is Zapote (scientific name: Poterium Zapote);
and the plant of the Ericaceae family, genus Gautheria, is Axcopaque
(scientific name: Gautheria Acuminata).
11. A composition for promoting tyrosinase activity which contains as an
effective ingredient a plant extract wherein the effective ingredient is at
least one type of extract derived from a plant of a genus chosen from a group
consisting of the Ericaceae family, genus Arctostaphylos, the Chenopodiaceae
family, genus Chenopodium and genus Poterium and the Ericaceae family, genus
Gautheria.
12. A composition for preventing gray hair which contains as an effective
ingredient a plant extract wherein the effective ingredient is at least one
type of extract derived from a plant of a genus chosen from a group consisting
of the Ericaceae family, genus Arctostaphylos, the Chenopodiaceae family,
genus Chenopodium and genus Poterium and the Ericaceae family, genus Gautheria.
13. The composition of claim 11 wherein the plant of the Ericaceae family,
genus Arctostaphylos, is Pinguica (scientific name: Chenopodium Ambrosioides
L.); the plant of the Chenopodiaceae family, genus Chenopodium, is Aritaso (in
Japanese; scientific name: Chenopodium Ambrosioides L.); the plant of genus
Poterium is Zapote (scientific name: Poterium Zapote); and the plant of the
Ericaceae family, genus Gautheria, is Axcopaque (scientific name: Gautheria
Acuminata).
14. The composition of claim 12 wherein the plant of the Ericaceae family,
genus Arctostaphylos, is Pinguica (scientific name: Chenopodium Ambrosioides
L.); the plant of the Chenopodiaceae family, genus Chenopodium, is Aritaso (in
Japanese; scientific name: Chenopodium Ambrosioides L.); the plant of genus
Poterium is Zapote (scientific name: Poterium Zapote); and the plant of the
Ericaceae family, genus Gautheria, is Axcopaque (scientific name: Gautheria
Acuminata).
15. A composition for use on the scalp which characteristically contains as
an effective ingredient an extract from guaco misto (scientific name: Mykania
Glomerata) of the Compositae family, genus Mykania.
16. A composition for promoting tyrosinase activity which contains as an
effective ingredient a plant extract wherein the effective ingredient is an
extract from guaco misto (scientific name: Mykania Glomerata) of the Compositae
family, genus Mykania.
17. A composition for preventing gray hair which contains as an effective
ingredient a plant extract wherein the effective ingredient is an extract >from
guaco misto (scientific name: Mykania Glomerata) of the Compositae family,
genus Mykania.
18. A composition for use on the scalp which characteristically contains as
an effective ingredient a Japanese pepper extract.
19. A tyrosinase activity promoting agent which contains as an effective
ingredient a Japanese pepper extract.
20. The tyrosinase activity promoting agent of claim 19 wherein the
tyrosinase activity promoting agent is a gray hair prevention agent.
Data supplied from the esp@cenet database - l2
You can also contact:
European Patent Office
Enlarged Board of Appeal
concerning T1054/96 and T 356/93
80298 M�nchen Germany
Fax: (49-89) 23 99 45 60
Implications:
Some are directly referred to be used as folk medicines (traditionally known
as "jamu"). Products have been developed, for example Shiseido Fine Toiletry
in 1998 launched a new facial cleansing soap called "Rajam" which has been
developed based on jamu folk medicine in Bali island. It contains "Jamu" made
by compounding Asian herbs.
How will it impact the economy?
In global terms, the estimated market for traditional remedies is at US$2
bil, with Japan accounting for sales of US$920 mil and China US$500 mil. The
market for Indonesian traditional remedies, locally known as jamu is estimated
at US$150 mil (1992) of which 20% is for premium-priced products. Indonesian
herbal medicine exports totaled 2,393 tons valued at US$29 mil in 1997, vs
4,903 tons in 1996, and 1,800 tons valued at US$21.9 mil in 1994 where the top
importer continues is Saudi Arabia.
Will it impact on small peoples' livelihood?
Thousands of Banyumas residents in Central Java, as one of illustrations,
depend on the jamu industry for their livelihood. Currently, rough estimation,
at least 6,000 people are employed by about 400 jamu enterprises in Cilacap
and Banyumas. Again, this one of examples.
In Central Java as centre of jamu industry, as reported by Bisnis Indonesia
(24 January 2001). officially recorded around 95 enterprises, but in real
activities only 50 enterprises. By classification, there are 6 big companies,
with 7 medium enterprises, small scale 78, and simplisia 2 companies; all
locates in Semarang, Kedu, Surakarta, Pati, Tegal Cilacap and Kedu.
How will it impact on long held culture?
Herbal medicine had been used since the ancient time and continues to be
consumed by people of different level; lower, middle and upper, in the villages
and in the big cities. One could buy easily ready made jamu packed modernly
in the form of powder, pills, capsules, drinking liquid and ointments. There
are still jamu street vendor or tiny shops, which sell only ingredients or
prepare the jamu on spot as required by buyers. Some women still roam in the
street - peddled remedies (jamu Gendong) or may use motorcycles or push carts -
to sell ready to drink jamu, a common view across the country. The
traditional methods of making jamu such as by boiling the prepared herbal ingredients
(jamu godok) still prevail in Javanese society. The popular traditional tools
of making jamu are still available in many Javanese houses.
The traditional medicine system in Indonesia is shaped by its wealth of
biological and cultural diversity. Jamu flourished because of a dynamic system of
exchanges of new knowledge and uses of herbal medicines between various
cultural groups. The imposition of private ownership and commodification of these
resources and knowledge disrupts the traditional medical systems in place.
Plants and even jamu formulations have been collected, knowledge have been
extracted and patented for the benefit of a few stockholders and later on
further worked on and sold to those able to pay the price. In spite of the
availability of modern medicine, still more than 70% of Indonesian people depend
heavily on jamu. Presently, it plays an important component of Indonesia's
national health care system. It also plays a major role in the economy, creating
job opportunities especially in the rural areas, especially during the multi
dimensional crisis since July 1997.
(foresee to be the possible impact on the health care system, figured out
whether they collected materials from Indonesia and whether they did it in
compliance with CBD i.e. prior informed consent and benefit sharing)
Additional info:
Classification according IUCN in Rifai 1983, divided into five category:
Extinct, Endangered, Vulnerable, Rare, Indeterminate.
Sintox (cinnamomum sintox), for example, was classified rare in 1990
(Sudiarto, 1990). Other plants are examining.
Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)
Article 27: Patentable Subject Matter
3. Members may also exclude from patentability: (b) plants and animals other
than micro-organisms, and essentially biological processes for the
production of plants or animals other than non-biological and microbiological
processes. However, Members shall provide for the protection of plant varieties
either by patents or by an effective sui generis system or by any combination
thereof. The provisions of this subparagraph shall be reviewed four years after
the date of entry into force of the WTO Agreement.
There are extraordinary problems with Article 27.3(b) of the TRIPS
Agreement:
� No parameters for what a 'sui generis' system can amount to.
� No parameters for what is 'effective'.
� Many WTO members have expressed their view that genes and microbiological
processes are not inventions and therefore are not patentable subject matter.
� With its lack of any benefit-sharing mechanism, TRIPS offers no remedy for
the ongoing wave of biopiracy and is perceived as exacerbating the problem.
� There is a bias ingrained in TRIPS to protect breeders and
biotechnologists at the expense of farmers and local communities.
� Many countries perceive a conflict between TRIPS and the rights and
obligations countries previously acquired under the Convention on Biological
Diversity (CBD).
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Riza V. Tjahjadi
PAN Indonesia
Jl. Persada Raya No. 1 Menteng Dalam Jakarta 12870 Indonesia
Telp & fax: (021) 8296545; e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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No Patent No Beauty No Patent No Food
They claimed
WE fight for
Community Rights
and Farmers Rights
Indonesia version:
S H I S E I D O
Pembajak Hayati tanaman indonesia, . . . Boikot . . !
Berbagai jenis tanaman yang dikenal sebagai bahan obat dan rempah-rempah
sejak nenek-moyang kita, diam-diam telah dipatenkan oleh perusahaan kosmetika
terkenal dari Jepang Shiseido. Tercatat 9 buah paten. Lihat nomor paten dan
tanggal, serta judulnya, yaitu:
JP10316541 � 98-12-02 Composition for head (perawatan kepala)
JP10045555 � 98-02-17 external preparation for skin (perawatan kulit)
JP10029927 � 98-02-03 anti-aging agent (obat awet muda)
JP10029928 � 98-02-03 skin preparation for external use (perawatan kulit)
JP10029924 � 98-02-03 antiaging agent (obat awet muda)
JP10029923 � 98-02-03 antiaging agent (i d e m)
JP10007535 � 98-01-13 preparation for external use for skin (perawatan
kulit)
JP10007535 � 98-01-13 hair tonic (tonik rambut)
JP9095420 � 97-04-08 preparation for external use for skin (perawatan
kulit).
Pematenan semacam ini dikenal sebagai pembajakan hayati milik rakyat
Indonesia. Dewasa ini PAN Indonesia tengah menanyakan kepada Shiseido, apa cakupan
paten itu, apa dampaknya bagi rakyat Indonesia, dan sebagainya. Celaka,
sungguh, jika bangsa Indonesia harus minta ijin lebih dahulu, jika ingin memakai
tanaman - yang mungkin sudah lama ada di pekarangan kita - ke Jepang. Atau
membayar royalti ke Jepang, jika misalnya, anda meracik ramuan paten Shiseido
untuk kosmetika kita. Ironis..!
Nah, bersiap-siaplah dihisap, atau lawanlah paten itu. Mulailah dengan
BOIKOT, jika anda mau..!
Riza VT
PAN Indonesia
Jl. Persada Raya No. 1 Menteng Dalam Jakarta 12870
Telp. & fax: 62-21-8296545; e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lihat juga: kompas 26 Maret 2002
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Dear Kaji san,
Let me take opportunity to say thank you very much with your proposed action
within Japan.
Our campaign look like giant leap without proper ammunition. There will be a
huge of home work we must pursue.
I found, I shout, then, began to identify.
In Jakarta, I just began to prepare meeting to get more data about the
existing practicess and/or utilization of crops/herbals that uses as materials for
patent formulation. Just began make identification with some NGOs and
herbalists, traditional shamans, etc.
In the near future we will use results of the meeting for part of arguments
against patenting life form, against biopiracy, of which the parliament will
begin deliberate of a draft of revisioning a Patent Bill.
No Patent No Beauty, No Patent No Cure - are the myths of the transnational
companies that targetted be demise by NGOs or civil society organization with
NO PATENT ON LIFE NO PATENT ON HERBALS/CROPS.
I will happy if you could also stimulate your own concern and solidarity to
maintain the emerging movement against biopiracy. Most important, this a new
thing. Let's talk to, let say, lawyer that defend indigenous people (like
Ainu community in Japan). I share a succes story of
Amazon people against biopiracy of ayahuasca (below).
Keep in touch, and of course, I will keep you inform to what the NGOs
prepare to continue this campaign.
best regards,
Riza VT
02/24/2000
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