“Home-grown knowledge” was in focus in March, during a summit on intellectual property rights in Chennai organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry and sponsored by a US industry lobby led by the George Washington University Law School.
Members of a panel of US intellectual property lawyers and industry experts suggested developing countries such as India should not hold on to home-grown knowledge.
“Everybody will be richer if India and Brazil recognize that traditional knowledge is not a patent issue … India’s wealth is not dependent on traditional knowledge, but the strides it makes technologically and scientifically apart from stoking the entrepreneurial spirit of its people,” said Martin J Adelman, a professor at George Washington University.
