Planet Money's executive producer is Alex Goldmark. Our engineers were Josh Newell and James Willetts. This episode was produced by Willa Rubin with help from James Sneed and Emma Peaslee. patent office, eventually turned into a much bigger mission – to build a new kind of digital fortress, strong enough to keep even the most rapacious of bio-pirates at bay. And what started out as a plan to rescue one Indian remedy from the clutches of the U.S. The practice even had its own menacing nickname - biopiracy. But as he would soon discover, turmeric wasn't the only piece of traditional or indigenous knowledge that had been claimed in Western patent offices. So, he decided to do something about it – to go to battle against the turmeric patent. And he knew that patents are for brand new inventions. Mashelkar was shocked, because he knew that using turmeric that way was a well known remedy in traditional Indian medicine. had apparently filed a patent for using turmeric to help heal wounds. Raghunath Mashelkar was in his office in New Delhi when he came across a puzzling story in the newspaper. How one man fought a patent war over turmeric : Planet Money Back in the 1990s, Dr.
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