Nirmala Mahaveer Patil
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze traditional knowledge(TK) and its forms, specifically concentrating on traditional medicine, discussing from the perspective of India.
People have used the traditional medicines freely, and also passed this traditional knowledge to heal or cure diseases, from generations to generations. Can this traditional knowledge be put into the box of intellectual property and regulate, formalize or provide legal sanction to it? The paper aim to answer it.
Additionally, there is no single international instrument covering TK hence the paper refer to the recent international developments on protection of traditional knowledge and discuss the Convention on Biological diversity, Nagoya Protocol, IGC, establishment of TKDL, Sui generis system of protection. The paper concludes with a brief overview of TK.
