‘Global legislation on indigenous knowledge‘ by Anju Sharma is an excellent review of global trends in the protection of indigenous knowledge. Sharma outlines developments as either defensive or positive strategies for protecting or affirming indigenous communities’ interests in developing countries.
Defensive strategies include defining indigenous systems as unpatentable, developing databases of indigenous knowledge products, or […]

Judge Daniels reserved judgement on Disney’s urgent appeal in the Pretoria High Court yesterday to void 240 trademark attachments, which would give the plaintiffs rights over the South African use of some of the company’s best-known characters if Walt Disney loses the case. Read this from the Pretoria News and more from Reuters.