Coca Chronicles: Coca Leaf Progress at the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs - WOLA

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Intellectual property law

Oral tradition

Commercialization of traditional medicines

Traditional knowledge

World Intellectual Property Organization

Coca

Biopiracy

Intellectual property

Indigenous rights

Indigenous peoples of the Americas

Convention on Biological Diversity

Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore

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Summary

The article discusses the need for legal protection of the coca leaf as a traditional knowledge and genetic resource of Andean-Amazonian Indigenous Peoples, utilizing the Nagoya Protocol and upcoming WIPO negotiations to address issues like intellectual property rights, biopiracy, and commercialization within the framework of intellectual property law.

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