Indigenous Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights

The note emphasizes the critical importance of documenting indigenous knowledge in writing, which can then be used to challenge a patent claim on knowledge that is already in the public domain. It also highlights the usefulness of other forms of in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Prakash, Siddhartha
Format: Brief
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10819