Peru has prevented several foreign companies from taking out patents on products by demonstrating that they were developed using the traditional knowledge of Peruvians…. the Peruvian National Commission Against Biopiracy has shown authorities from France, Japan, Korea and the United States that products submitted for patents were developed using the traditional knowledge of Peruvian people… "We don't want to forbid companies from using our genetic resources or traditional knowledge — but they have to reward the indigenous people fairly," [says Andrés Valladolid, technical coordinator at the commission]