Claim: Sarawak Biodiversity Centre filed a patent (gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making product) for a cyclopentabenzofuran compound and started a project called "Development of Medicinal and Aromatic Oils from Sarawak's Indigenous Plants"..
Evidence: In 2002, the centre filed a patent for a cyclopentabenzofuran compound that could be used together with other anti-cancer drugs. A patent is a form of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of years in exchange for publishing an enabling public disclosure of the invention. In 2006, the centre started a project called "Development of Medicinal and Aromatic Oils from Sarawak's Indigenous Plants".