Intellectual property is an increasingly important generator of economic, social and cultural growth and development. A clear understanding of the intellectual property system has, therefore, become a necessity for all those associated with creative and innovative endeavor – from policymakers...

It is one established principle of copyright law that copyright protection cannot be provided to a work until and unless the work is expressed in some tangible form. This requirement of expressing the idea is known as the requirement of fixation in copyright. This essentially means that the work...

The twenty-first century will be the century of knowledge, indeed the century of the intellect. A nation’s ability to translate knowledge into wealth and social good through innovations will determine its future. Thus innovations hold the key to the creation as well as processing of knowledge....

The emergence of a “global information society” in recent years, characterized by the advent of modern information technologies, has also given rise to increasing awareness of traditional knowledge (TK). TK is thus receiving increased attention in numerous policy debates, ranging from food...

Human communities have always generated, refined and passed on knowledge from generation to generation. Such “traditional” knowledge” is often an important part of their cultural identities. Traditional knowledge encompasses the beliefs, knowledge, practices, innovations, arts,...

Scholars debate whether intellectual property is truly property and the lessons learned about property rights in traditional property should be applied to property rights in inventions and other intellectual property.As we know, Intellectual property protects applications of ideas and...

Traditional knowledge has always been an easily available treasure and thus has been subjected to misappropriation. Intellectual Property Rights are one of the sites which represent the encounter between indigenous knowledge and modern scientific knowledge. The researchers in this paper try to...