Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Part I The main problems
- Part II The protection of genetic resources in intellectual property law
- Part III The protection of traditional knowledge in the international patent system
- 4 Towards clearer legal definitions
- 5 The construction of an access- and benefit-sharing regime and intellectual property issues: criteria and options
- 6 The defensive protection of traditional knowledge in international patent law
- 7 Positive protection of traditional knowledge
- 8 Final observations
- Index
- Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
- References
6 - The defensive protection of traditional knowledge in international patent law
from Part III - The protection of traditional knowledge in the international patent system
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Part I The main problems
- Part II The protection of genetic resources in intellectual property law
- Part III The protection of traditional knowledge in the international patent system
- 4 Towards clearer legal definitions
- 5 The construction of an access- and benefit-sharing regime and intellectual property issues: criteria and options
- 6 The defensive protection of traditional knowledge in international patent law
- 7 Positive protection of traditional knowledge
- 8 Final observations
- Index
- Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
- References
Summary
Defensive protection of GR-related TK refers to legal methods of avoiding its misappropriation by IP holders or applicants. In order to grant a defensive protection to TK in the international IP system, it is necessary to rethink the role of the legal concepts underlying IPRs in their international context.
Since TK is viewed as an external element to the classic patent system, most patent attorneys (and indeed lawyers) think that protecting it within the patent system amounts to imposing hurdles to the progress of science and to the mandate of patent law. In their opinion, patent law should exclusively deal with technological innovation, should stand as a neutral tool for rewarding investment in innovation, and should function as the main incentive for more innovation. The discussion on the challenges of the patentability of biotechnology and of the IP system as a whole presented in section 2.2 above has shown that the IP system is evolving from a purely technical field to a broader tool of economic policy encompassing elements that were once external to its nature.
This chapter looks first at the methods by which TK can be defended within the current laws of the patent system (lex lata) and then considers the methods that are more remote from the current patent system (lex ferenda).
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- The Protection of Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge in International Law of Intellectual Property , pp. 131 - 274Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009
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