Rooibos Payout Recognizes Indigenous South Africans' Know-How as Intellectual Property

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I imagine the US Government will resist similar hefty claims from PR China for their ancestral discovery and invention of processing methods for Camellia sinensis over the last four millennia. At 1.5% of farmgate revenue for annual tea sales that would be a tidy sum into the Chinese economy.

Nigel Melican more than 1 year ago

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