A ‘new’ variety of rice was patented by a foreign company, though such varieties have been present in India for a long time. This is related to:

In $1997$, an American company got patent rights on $\text{Basmati}$ rice through the $\text{US}$ Patent and Trademark Office. This variety was actually derived from Indian farmer's varieties. $\text{Basmati}$ is an aromatic long-grain rice indigenous to the Indian subcontinent.