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NIF is extremely happy that you have shared Innovation/ Traditional Knowledge developed/ communicated by you based on your own and independent effort or drawn from community knowledge. It has been included in the National Register of Grassroots Innovations and Traditional Knowledge. We need your informed consent before we decide to share this with any third party, or on the web or in any publication, or with any prospective entrepreneur or potential investor, with or without any restriction as per your instructions.

The objective is to balance the twin goals, partly in conflict, of dissemination and promotion of your innovation/ traditional knowledge so that other communities and individuals can benefit from it, vis a vis the protection and potential commercialisation of the same through contractual arrangements. If we had an intellectual property rights system in our country that granted the rights quickly, we could have got you the protection for new and non-obvious innovations with industrial applications. We could have then shared the innovation with others without causing any trade off. It is because of the absence of such a system that we need your Prior Informed Consent (PIC) so that we do what you think proper under the circumstances.