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Comparative Summary of Existing National Sui Generis Measures and Laws for the Protection of Traditional Knowledge

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dc.contributor.author Secretariat of the World Intellectual Property Organizatio
dc.date.accessioned 2012-07-06T15:42:41Z
dc.date.available 2012-07-06T15:42:41Z
dc.date.issued 2003 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/8106
dc.description.abstract "The Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore ('the Committee') will hold a Panel on National and Regional Experiences with Existing Sui Generis Measures and Laws for the Protection of Traditional Knowledge ('the TK Panel') as an informal part of its fifth session. The Panel responds to Member State requests during the fourth session for information about national experiences to protect traditional knowledge using national or regional sui generis laws. The objective of the Panel is to compare experiences with existing sui generis measures, to recount lessons learned, and to identify elements that are common to existing systems. A better understanding of national experiences, lessons learned, and common elements may contribute a substantive basis for future work on the protection of traditional knowledge, as envisaged in documents WIPO/GRTKF/IC/5/7 and WIPO/GRTKF/IC/5/8. The material presented at the Panel and contained in the Annex thus supplements those documents with in-depth comparative information regarding existing measures and policy options for national sui generis protection of traditional knowledge. Whereas document WIPO/GRTKF/IC/5/7 surveys national experiences and WIPO/GRTKF/IC/5/8 develops a general understanding of principles for sui generis protection, the present document compares existing sui generis measures and policy options that have been implemented by Member States at the national level. This may contribute to the future work foreseen in document WIPO/GRTKF/IC/5/8. The Panel and this information document focus exclusively on traditional knowledge in the narrow sense, i.e. tradition-based know-how and technical knowledge, and other aspects of the tradition-based useful arts ('TK'). This focus is in contrast to the distinct work that the Committee is undertaking on traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) or folklore. " en_US
dc.language English en_US
dc.subject indigenous knowledge en_US
dc.subject traditional knowledge en_US
dc.subject intellectual property rights en_US
dc.title Comparative Summary of Existing National Sui Generis Measures and Laws for the Protection of Traditional Knowledge en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en_US
dc.type.published unpublished en_US
dc.type.methodology Case Study en_US
dc.publisher.workingpaperseries World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva, Switzerland en_US
dc.subject.sector Global Commons en_US
dc.subject.sector Information & Knowledge en_US
dc.identifier.citationconference Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdates July 7-15 en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfloc Geneva, Switzerland en_US


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