Patent Transparency Critical for Innovation
Exploding numbers of patents and their declining quality, in both IT and the life sciences, are creating an urgent need for greater patent transparency and better public oversight. CAMBIA’s Patent Lens, as featured in Red Herring’s cover story this week, is a major step toward solving this problem.
The lifeblood of both the IT and life ...
Open Source BioTech
In a feature edition, renowned IT mag Red Herring focuses on CAMBIA's role in pushing the boundaries of the biotech industry.
Australian Richard A. Jefferson, an American-born molecular biologist, is out to increase innovation in the life sciences by applying software’s open-source model to biotechnology. His goal is to change the global ...
Open Source BioTech
"Patent transparency is the lifeblood of the new open source"
In a feature article, Red Herring focuses on CAMBIA's role in pushing the boundaries of the biotech industry.
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Controls over Plant Genetic Resources
Strategies from the patent system that keep technologies available to farmers could be adapted and built into biodiversity laws to suit the exchange of genetic resources. These could include open-source strategies as initiated by CAMBIA's BiOS Initiative.
Nature Reviews Genetics, April 01, 2006
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