Ambit Of Global Intellectual Rights Over Traditional Knowledge

Just like a cat is believed to have nine lives, the discussion of intellectual property rights over the local or traditional knowledge refuses to die. The moment it is believed to have ended it again resurrects. This editorial observes the deliberation over the elimination of indigenous or local knowledge forms from the global intellectual property system, and the Indian way to mitigation. Using the lens of cultural cosmopolitanism, the article highlights important trends in the contentions of developing countries engagement with intellectual property and other collateral knowledge protection systems. An amalgamation of aspects, such as economic globalization, advancement in genetic research for food, medicines, and agriculture, as well as the swelling occurrence of bio piracy¹ has made native and local group's incongruity concerning intellectual property an unkind ill affordable option.² These phenomenons indicates a one way transfer of native knowledge to