The twentieth century saw the emergence of public funded universities and technical institutions, while technology development was concentrated in the R&D laboratories of large corporations. The age ...

The problem of "biopiracy"—the misappropriation and patenting for profit of Indigenous knowledge—has been on the rise for some time. So a global treaty aimed at protecting traditional knowledge and ...

Strategy There may be merit in developing a strategy that clearly articulates the role of key knowledge assets in the business, thus providing a framework for decision making by business units, ...

The newly-funded Horizon Europe project IP4OS will empower multi-professional teams across Europe with tools and practices to align Intellectual Property (IP) management with Open Science (OS) ...

Growing biopiracy concerns have fueled urgent calls for a new system of legal protection for traditional knowledge. Detractors of the current patent systems say that the traditional knowledge of ...

The problem of “biopiracy” – the misappropriation and patenting for profit of Indigenous knowledge – has been on the rise for some time. So a global treaty aimed at protecting traditional knowledge ...

Xiaohui Wu of Wanhuida Intellectual Property reports on a ruling by the Supreme People’s Court of China that emphasises that the determination of common knowledge in the assessment of inventiveness ...

The intersection of traditional knowledge and intellectual property (IP) presents a challenging dichotomy for global legal systems. On one side lies the enormous economic potential inherent in ...

On World Intellectual Property Day each year, we honour the knowledge systems, creativity, and innovation forming human development. It's time India too looks inward as countries protect their ...

Member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) approved a groundbreaking new treaty relating to intellectual property, genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge on ...

Four hundred years prior to the birth of Christ a revolution began in Greece that would fundamentally change the world and give birth to modern Western civilization. The early Greek philosophers (e.g.