TK (traditional knowledge) needs its own defining type of IP---best developed through sui generis and not the perm
Brody 10 [Baruch A. Brody was an American bioethicist. He was the Leon Jaworski Professor of biomedical ethics and former Director of the Center for Ethics, Medicine and Public Issues at The Baylor College of Medicine[3] and Andrew Mellow professor of Humanities in the Department of Philosophy at Rice University., 2010, “Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property”, https://muse-jhu-edu.proxy.lib.umich.edu/article/400477/pdf, accessed 7/5/24]staghi
The alternative view represents the uniqueness of traditional knowledge approach. According to this view, traditional knowledge should receive special treatment in matters of intellectual property. Various reasons could be given to support such special treatment. The ones I address here are variants of the fundamental theme that traditional knowledge plays a special role in defining the identity of indigenous communities. Protecting this identity requires positive as well as negative protection of the intellectual property rights of the indigenous community and is probably best developed through a sui generis system. Article 8(j) of the Convention is clearly based upon this approach.