It was a landmark case where traditional knowledge from our villages—using neem for centuries—was used to revoke a foreign patent. It matters because it showed that our wisdom has weight in your legal systems, that biopiracy can be challenged. From my seat in a European office, I see it as a victory for ethics. But from my driver’s seat at dawn, it’s personal: that neem tree outside my hut, whose twigs we use for teeth, was almost claimed as someone else’s *nija sampada*—our own property.
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