Table of Contents:
Preface;
Acknowledgements;
List of Contributors;
Biodiversity to Biotechnology: vis-à-vis Intellectual Property Rights;
Traditional Knowledge (TK), IPR, Value Addition and Technology Transfer – A Case Study;
Medicinal Plants and Intellectual Property Rights;
Vedas and IPR : Documentation and Interpretation of a few Scientific Observations about Sun, Earth and Environment from Vedas; Prama (nas) and IPR: Novelty is the Crux;
Biodiversity Dynamics in Relation to the Mass Extinction Events on Planet Earth;
Intellectual Property Rights in Biodiversity Conservation, Biotechnology Transfer and Environmental Sustainability;
Intellectual Property Protection of Plant Varieties in India;
Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Plant Genetic Resources;
Biotech Patents and Questions of Patentability in India and Abroad;
Rationale of Applicability of Patent and its Importance in Research and Development;
Shifting Cultivation, Traditional Knowledge and Sustainable Development in Nagaland, India;
Transfer of Technology and Commercialisation of Intellectual Property Rights: Options for Public Sector Research and Development Organisations;
Contribution of Indian Traditional and Holistic Medicine to New Drug Development;
Intellectual Property Right: A Prospective Approach towards Conservation of Biodiversity and Promotion of Biotechnology; Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in Context with Biotechnology, Biodiversity and Biopiracy: An Overview;
Intellectual Property Rights and Traditional Knowledge: The Indian Scenario;
Unrecorded Ethnomedicinal Uses of Plants of Phulwari–Ki–Nal Wildlife Sanctuary (Rajasthan);
Living Gymnosperms in India;
Flowering Plants of Arunachal Pradesh.