The plaintiff is a professor in the law faculty of the University of G at which he holds a chair of international and ecclesiastical law. From a stay in Korea he had brought with him a ginseng root, which he placed at the disposal of his friend Professor H, a pharmacologist, for research.
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ginseng caseThe latter mentioned in a scientific article on ginseng roots that he had come into possession of genuine Korean ginseng roots ‘through the kind assistance’ of the plaintiff. This led to the plaintiff being described in a popular scientific article, which appeared in the year 1957 in the H and W journal, along with Professor H and other scientists, as one of the best-known ginseng researchers of Europe.


