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Intellectual Property Law

Maurer School of Law: Indiana University

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

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Patents And Traditional Medicine: Digital Capture, Creative Legal Interventions And The Dialectics Of Knowledge Transformation, Chidi Oguamanam Jul 2008

Patents And Traditional Medicine: Digital Capture, Creative Legal Interventions And The Dialectics Of Knowledge Transformation, Chidi Oguamanam

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

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 …


Patents And Traditional Knowledge Of The Uses Of Plants: Is A Communal Patent Regime Part Of The Solution To The Scourge Of Bio Piracy, Ikechi Mgbeoji Oct 2001

Patents And Traditional Knowledge Of The Uses Of Plants: Is A Communal Patent Regime Part Of The Solution To The Scourge Of Bio Piracy, Ikechi Mgbeoji

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

No abstract provided.


Patenting Resources: Biotechnology And The Concept Of Sustainable Development, Yvonne Cripps Oct 2001

Patenting Resources: Biotechnology And The Concept Of Sustainable Development, Yvonne Cripps

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

No abstract provided.


Sustainable Agriculture, Patent Rights, And Plant Innovation, Mark D. Janis Oct 2001

Sustainable Agriculture, Patent Rights, And Plant Innovation, Mark D. Janis

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

No abstract provided.