India’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has signed a traditional knowledge digital library (TKDL) access agreement with the Japan Patent Office (JPO).
The TKDL was created to protect India’s traditional medicinal and plant formulations and help prevent misappropriation of this knowledge through unethical patents or biopiracy.
TKDL has made accessible to international patent examiners 148 books on Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha and Yoga by transcribing them into 34 million pages of information. This information on Indian traditional knowledge in available in five languages: English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish. The access agreements have been designed to ensure that the digital library is used strictly for search and examination purposes to ensure that the traditional knowledge is kept confidential during the search process. Patent examiners at various international patent offices use the library to search for patents and examine them. However they are not permitted to disclose the search results to a third party.
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