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There is growing interest in documenting the wealth of traditional knowledge (TK) that has been developed by indigenous peoples and local communities around the world. But documenting TK can raise important issues, especially as regards intellectual property. This Toolkit presents a range of easy-to-use checklists and other resources to help ensure that anyone considering a documentation project can address those issues effectively.

Contributed articles in the Indian context

Biogenetic resources - the critical biological and chemical materials that underpin so much of medicine, both modern and traditional, agriculture, and wider economic activity in so many fields - are at the centre of heated debate regarding their use, development, and ownership, and the issues of ethics and equity that impinge on all of these factors. This book is a comprehensive examination of the key issues, institutions and ideologies in this area, presenting definitions and explanations of the fundamentals of intellectual property rights (IPRs), biogenetic resources and traditional knowledge.

When arrows from the jungle aim to the heart of the modern intellectual property rights -- Towards a horizontal and vertical institutionalisation of TKGR trade -- TKGR protection: major implementation lines -- Contractual accommodation of rights to TKGR -- To protect or not to protect -- Where traditional knowledge meets modern IPRS