Ministry presents biodiversity database

18/04/2006 - 8h13

Agencia Brasil

Brasilia – Five thousand products of the Brazilian biodiversity, such as the imbu, hog plum, cupuassu, açaí (ah-sci-ee), passion fruit, and pinion, will integrate a database to be presented this Tuesday (18), by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA) to the Interministerial Group of Intellectual Property, integrated by experts of the MAPA, as well as of the Ministries of Foreign Relations, and Science and Technology. Hundreds of species of the country’s fauna, flora and microorganisms are also part of the list.

The objective is to send the list, initially in a software format, to the major patent world offices located in Europe, United States, and Japan. According to the Assistant of the Secretariat of Agriculture Development and Cooperativism, Leontino de Rezende, the list is an extra information tool to be used in the international patenting process.

Translation: Andréa Alves