International Law and Indigenous Knowledge: Intellectual Property, Plant Biodiversity, and Traditional Medicine

Preface
Abbreviations

PART ONE: General Introduction and Overview

1. Introduction
2. Knowledge: The New Frontier of the Indigenous Question
3. Intellectual Property and the Search for Equity
4. TKPT and Socio-Cultural Imperative
5. Traditional and Western Scientific Knowledge Systems
6. Science as a Site of Contest
7. Indigenous/Traditional Knowledge
8. Traditional Knowledge of Plant-Based Therapy (TKPT)
9. Applicability of IPRs to Traditional Knowledge
10. Chapter Synopsis

PART TWO: Introduction on Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property and the Protection of Indigenous Peoples in International Law

1. Introduction
2. Biodiversity
3. Traditional/Indigenous Knowledge Systems
4. Intellectual Property Rights
5. International Law Relating to Indigenous Peoples

PART THREE: International Law and Traditional Knowledge of Plant-based Therapy (TKPT)

1. Introduction
2. Indigenous Knowledge as Part of International Law on Indigenous Peoples
3. The Protection of Traditional Therapeutic Knowledge
4. Traditional Therapeutic Knowledge under the WHO
5. State Practices and Traditional Medicine
6. Summary

PART FOUR: The Socio-Cultural Context of Traditional Knowledge of Plant-based Therapy (TKPT)

1. Introduction
2. Traditional Therapy and Western Biomedicine: The Paradigmatic Divergence
3. The Central Role of Plants in Traditional Therapy
4. Traditional Therapeutic Systems: Beyond Active Substances
5. The Performing of Healing
6. Multivalence of Traditional Therapeutic Methods
7. The Scientific Question and Situational Logic
8. Summary

PART FIVE: Intellectual Property and Traditional Knowledge of Plant-based Thearpy

1. Introduction
2. Intellectual Property Rights in the Context of Traditional Medicine
3. The Intellectual Property Debate
4. Patients and TKPT: Investigating the Tradeoffs
5. Tests of Patentability and Product of Nature Rhetoric
6. The Case for Patentability of TKPT
7. Beyond Patenting: Folkloric Protection for TKPT
8. Intellectual Property at the Periphery: Geographical Indications
9. Patenting TKPT: Some Reflections

PART SIX: Towards a Cross-Cultural Dialogue on Intellectual Property Rights

1. Introduction
2. Appraising the Discussion
3. Indigenous Knowledge: Economic Reward vs Cultural Identity
4. Indigenous Knowledge: Legal Empowerment From Within
5. The CBD and WIPO: Embracing the Cross-cultural Dialogue
6. Knowledge Protection Outside the Regime of Conventional Intellectual Property Rights
7. The Cross-cultural Approach as a Framework