Plant biotechnological patents from the legal perspective

The purpose of this article is to examine the extent to which plantbiotechnological patent in terms of natural product which has humanintervention, different from other product and the entitlement ofsuch a patent whether it is the inventor or biological donor’s patent?In addition, the article discusses how would one determine the“value” added” by the company’s researchers as opposed to thevalue contributed by the original genetic material. Meanwhile, thepoor farmers and indigenous people who are the “pioneers” in termsof the knowledge of the plant, they are left unprivileged anddeprived of their contribution and benefits. Thus, this article wouldhighlight the significance of the contribution made by the originaldonor especially, in a poor developing country whose naturalheritage has been “taken away” without any consideration,acknowledgment and how to strike a balance between the rights ofan inventor and biological donor?