Article Title
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 2008
Publication Citation
15 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 489 (2008)
Abstract
This article examines the debate over the exclusion of indigenous or local knowledge forms from the global intellectual property system, and some of the current attempts to solve this problem. Using the lens of cultural cosmopolitanism, the article highlights important trends in the dialectics of developing countries' engagement with intellectual property and other collateral knowledge protection systems. The three sites at which this significant development is unfolding are: (1) the digitization of traditional medicinal knowledge through India's traditional knowledge digital library (TKDL) project; (2) a recent attempt at incorporating innovations in Chinese Herbal Medicine (CHM) in Taiwanese patent law; and (3) efforts to enshrine disclosure of origin requirements (DRs) in patent applications, and developments around geographical indications (Gls).
Recommended Citation
Oguamanam, Chidi
(2008)
"Patents and Traditional Medicine: Digital Capture, Creative Legal Interventions and the Dialectics of Knowledge Transformation,"
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies: Vol. 15:
Iss.
2, Article 3.
Available at:
https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/ijgls/vol15/iss2/3
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