摘要: Introduction - patents an ethical crisis. Part 1 The role of in history: as instruments conquest rewards for inventiveness technology transfer, catching up and import monopolies control over the global economy. 2 myth patents: stimulating creativity innovation R knowledge generation spies, crime IPRs. 3 Threats to biodiversity: enclosure commons. 4 Biopiracy: what is biopiracy: stealing from pharmacy poor farms our farmers nature's pesticide resolving biopiracy. 5 Can seed be owned?: seeds ultimate gift legislation on plants terminating germination. 6 Profiteering disease. 7 Democracy or dictatorship?: trade related intellectual property rights (TRIPS) TRIPS biodiversity patent laws India. 8 way forward: reform review farmers' community sui generis system reform.