Analyses the methods of protection of biodiversity and related traditional knowledge in the international and comparative national intellectual property systems

Discusses the suitability of mainstream forms of intellectual propety rights to indigenous knowledge and efforts to reconcile the Western concept of intellectua

Traditional knowledge is largely oral collective of knowledge, beliefs, and practices of indigenous people on sustainable use and management of resources. The s

Legal Protection for Traditional Knowledge calls attention to the vital contributions that aboriginal knowledge makes to global development and how the legal sy

The book examines the national, regional and international frameworks of protection of traditional knowledge in all regions of the world. It also discusses opti