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Impact of TKDL on Patent Applications in the Field of Bio-resources and the Associated TK

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Title Impact of TKDL on Patent Applications in the Field of Bio-resources and the Associated TK
 
Creator Kumar, Pankaj
Sharma, Ameeta
 
Subject Bio-Piracy
Bio-Resources
Patent Revocation
Traditional Knowledge Digital Library
Traditional Knowledge
 
Description 133-140
After the incidents of bio-piracy and bio-patenting of Indian bio-resources and the associated traditional knowledge,
India has successfully initiated an institutional mechanism named Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL). Such
Traditional Knowledge (TK) databases help to establish prior-art and therefore disprove patentability, protect the county’s
TK from wrong patenting. As being codified in such a way, the database enables timely and economically establishing
non-patentability of inventions based on biological TK. India as a country has become the first in the world to have such a
tool. TKDL is an open prior art model to keep a check against bio-piracy. Here in this work, India’s TKDL impacts on
patent applications in the field of traditional knowledge associated with bio-resources have been evaluated. TKDL has
around 34 million pages that include 2.90 million compositions of the diverse medicine system of India. Thepaper discloses
various remarkable particulars associated to bio-piracy, bio-prospecting, and how TKDL is acting as a protecting shield
against them, thus showing effectiveness of the TKDL with the help of discussed case studies.
 
Date 2024-04-04T10:57:57Z
2024-04-04T10:57:57Z
2024-04
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1076 (Online); 0971-7544 (Print)
http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/63691
https://doi.org/10.56042/jipr.v29i1.3373
 
Language en
 
Publisher NIScPR-CSIR,India
 
Source JIPR Vol.29(2) [March 2024]