Traditional Medicinal Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights: A Review
Journal Title: International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies (IJIMS) - Year 2016, Vol 3, Issue 2
Abstract
Indian society has been experiencing medical pluralism with diverse health care practices since time immemorial. The folk traditional healers and their medicinal knowledge are promoting the health and well-being in primary health care level for many poor people in developing country like India. The contributions made by traditional medicinal knowledgeable healers in local health care practices are important as their knowledge helps to produce therapeutic healing properties from medicinal plants, animals and minerals. Bio-piracy and implications of Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) for the third world countries are the two greatest threats to their knowledge and survival means. Under World Trade Organization (WTO) regimes patents and copyrights are awarded to people and organizations to protect their creative and innovative inputs into products and processes. The Western Intellectual Property Rights (WIPRs) regimes has divided the North-South inequality in terms of economic development and this monopoly has brought the third world countries to face the problems of survival crisis as most indigenous people depend on their immediate biodiversity. Sui-generis system is one of the means to protect traditional knowledge and bio-diversity from this regime.
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Asem Tomba Meetei
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