Adapting the patent regime to different innovation systems is not a simple task. The considerations relevant to an IDC may well be different from those relevant to less technologically advanced countries. These differences, however, should not be overstated since, on the one hand, developing countries, including IDCs are equally vulnerable to patent strategies of large companies from developed countries and, on the other, a large portion of the population in those countries live in poverty, and will equally bear the costs of tight patent regimes in terms of reduced access to essential goods, such as medicines and chemical products for agriculture.