Indigenous Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights

Prakash, Siddhartha

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: BIODIVERSITY;    BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY;    CANCER;    FORESTS;    INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY;   

RP-ID  :  23432

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The note emphasizes the criticalimportance of documenting indigenous knowledge in writing,which can then be used to challenge a patent claim onknowledge that is already in the public domain. It alsohighlights the usefulness of other forms of intellectualproperty rights, other than patents, such as geographicalindicators. These may be of more use to indigenouscommunities seeking to regulate access over their resources,as they can be applied to knowledge that evolves over time,and with the input of the local community at large. Thisleads us to the possibility of widening the Agreement onTrade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), toensure that patents disclose the origin of geneticresources, and use of indigenous knowledge, and, considersui generis forms of intellectual property, such ascommunity based rights, to secure equitable benefit sharing.