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| Title: | Traditional Knowledge and Patent Strategy |
| Authors: | Kalluri, Shravan |
| Keywords: | Traditional knowledge
Patent
TKDL
Intellectual property |
| Issue Date: | Sep-2012 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| Abstract: | For centuries, practices have been invented
and passed on from generation to generation among various communities. Such
practices cover areas such as music, dance, science and technology, medicine,
etc. As innovations evolved across centuries, the same practice as it stands
today is collective knowledge accumulated across generations restricted to
certain groups of people and passed on as traditional knowledge. These
practices, forming an essential cultural attachment to a community, intend to
promote community ownership over such knowledge. Many of these practices have
recently picked up a trend of being the basis for novel inventions. While the
nature of traditional knowledge is to promote community interests, the nature
of patent law is to promote personal monopoly and profit. With the current
commercial dynamics that dominate the world, there are many growing instances
where traditional knowledge meets patent law. This article intends to find a
solution/strategy by way of which, a mean path can be constructed between the
world of traditional knowledge and the world of patents. |
| Page(s): | 430-436 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-1076 (Online); 0971-7544 (Print) |
| Source: | JIPR Vol.17(5) [September 2012]
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