This article provides information about the need for the protection of traditional knowledge: The implications IPRs for developing countries, and the subsistence farming communities and indigenous population with these countries, are very severe. Not only is their knowledge stolen but their very survival is threatened without any compensation for their knowledge or survival. […]
This article provides information about the Traditional Communities and Indigenous Population are affected by Patent Law ! WTO and the developed countries argue that the compulsory imposition of TRIPs is with the aim of checking piracy and to give protection to innovative inventions. But many a times this can go against the interests of indigenous/laypersons’ common knowledge especially of the [...]
Biopiracy suggests to use of biological resources by corporations. Particular activities usually covered by the term are: i. Unauthorised use of biological resources such as plants, animals, micro-organisms and genes, ii. Unauthorised use of traditional communities knowledge on biological resources, iii. Unequal share of benefits between a patent holder and the indigenous community whose resource or knowledge has been used, [...]
