ABSTRACT
The aim of this chapter is to discuss the various ways in which traditional knowledge can be adequately protected. The first part examines the means of protection that exist in the current legal system, and discusses whether these modes of protection are adequate given the characteristics of traditional knowledge. The next part discusses how the International Cooperative Biodiversity Group (ICBG) at Washington University in St Louis used a combination of various methods of protection to effectively protect the traditional knowledge obtained during an ethnobotanical project in Peru. The chapter concludes by discussing alternative modes of protection.
