According to our knowledge, there are not many countries which have adopted special legislation that protects traditional knowledge as a special type of IP. The complete list can be found here. In other countries the community willing to protect their traditional knowledge have other options to use other types of IP protection like copyright, registered design, plant variety etc.

Actual situation is that the most traditional knowledge is not protected by these conventional types of IP and therefore the protection against unauthorized use might be an issue. Some countries also maintain the databases containing the traditional knowledge and genetic resources information. The list of all world databases can be found here. With these information the traditional knowledge communities can better act when defending their rights against unauthorized use of their traditional IP.