Putting the global patent system under The Lens
Global social enterprise Cambia and the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) are using a US$1.6 million Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant to develop The Lens – an open, public web facility containing comprehensive patent information for inventions from almost 100 million documents in 90 countries, linked to millions of scientific ...
The patent bargain
Featured in an Editorial in the journal Nature on 11 Dec 2013.
An open-source patent database highlights the need for more transparency worldwide.
It may take a patent lawyer to fully understand the scope of US patent number 7,777,022, but one thing is clear: at first glance, it certainly appears broad. The patent includes 4.2 million ...
Who’s patenting whose genome?
QUT, December 07, 2013
An international project has developed a free and open public resource that will bring much-needed transparency to the murky and contentious world of gene patenting.
In a paper from Cambia andQueensland University of Technology (QUT) published in this week's Nature Biotechnology journal, researchers revealed that ...
Transparency tools in gene patenting for informing policy and practice
Nature Biotechnology, December 06, 2013
In the recent decision Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics1, the US Supreme Court held that naturally occurring sequences from human genomic DNA are not patentable subject matter. Only certain complementary DNAs (cDNA), modified sequences and methods to use sequences are potenti...