Chapter 30
The Peruvian Law on Protection ofthe Collective Knowledge ofIndigenous Peoples Related toBiological Resources
In August 2002, the Official Journal of Peru published the ‘Law introducing a protection regime for the collective knowledge of indigenous peoples related to biological resources’. This legislation establishes a sui generis protection regime that takes elements of existing protection mechanisms to create a new regime designed to take into account the characteristics of the kind of knowledge it covers. It was deemed necessary to establish such a special protection regime complementing the classic branches of the intellectual property rights (IPR) system because the latter cannot provide adequate protection ...
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