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This is the first WIPO Treaty to address the interface between intellectual property, genetic resources and traditional knowledge and the first WIPO Treaty to include provisions specifically for Indigenous Peoples as well as local communities. The Treaty, once it enters into force with 15 contracting parties, will establish in international law ...
This is the first WIPO Treaty to address the interface between intellectual property, genetic resources and traditional knowledge and the first WIPO Treaty to include provisions specifically for Indigenous Peoples as well as local communities. The Treaty, once it enters into force with 15 contracting parties, will establish in international law ...
The treaty doesn’t address com. U.N. member countries on Friday concluded a new treaty to help ensure that traditional knowledge about genetic resources, like medicines derived from exotic ...
The WIPO Lex database consists of three collections: IP laws, WIPO and other IP-related treaties, and IP judgments. WIPO Lex maintains IP legal collections for approximately 200 jurisdictions. The Database is curated and updated by experts, to provide up-to-date information on evolving IP laws, policies and their interpretations.
Traditional knowledge can also reflect a community's interests. Some communities depend on their traditional knowledge for survival. Traditional knowledge regarding the environment, such as taboos, proverbs and cosmological knowledge systems, may provide a conservation ethos for biodiversity preservation. [9]
These include supporting indigenous and local community entrepreneurship in making strategic and effective use of intellectual property tools in their businesses; providing intellectual property advice on the documentation of traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions; organizing hands-on training, mentoring and distance ...
Treaties which are administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (a specialized agency of the United Nations) and/or treaties for which WIPO or one of its officials acts as depositary.
Indigenous intellectual property is a concept that has developed as an analog to predominantly western concepts of intellectual property law, and has been promoted by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), as part of a broader effort by the United Nations [1] (UN) to see the world's indigenous, intangible cultural heritage better valued and better protected against perceived ...