The Ipkat Patent Of The Month: November 2003

Population command inward China is probable to stay a work if the patent application filed inward 1994 yesteryear Hao Hongfeng is anything to teach by. According to the abstract, his innovation is for an “external-use type anticonceptive drug” made of “traditional Chinese medicinal pregnancy-proof incense”. The invention, which tin endure made inward the flat of pulverization together with emulsion, is either inhaled or spread on the Jenchung acupoint (the midline of the nasal philtrum, i 3rd of the mode from the olfactory organ to the border of the upper lip) or the belly-button, it tin “attain the finish of nascency control”. The practiced intelligence is that this medicine has no toxic side-effect. The bad intelligence is that it has a success charge per unit of measurement of exclusively 92%.

, noting the steps that WIPO is currently taking to protect folklore together with traditional knowledge, wonders if steps volition likewise direct maintain to endure taken to protect us against the effects of such knowledge.

Philtrums here, here , here and here
Belly buttons here, here and here
More on contraception here, here and here

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