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Number of citations in academic papers is not always a good measure for the influence of applied research papers. In the vast majority of cases, scientists use public money to support their research. In return, the public wants to see real benefits, else the faucet risks running dry. These benefits can come in the form of fundamental advances or, ...
Public disclosure of biological sequences in global patent practice
World Patent Information, December 01, 2015 Author: Jefferson, O.A., Deniz Köllhofer, Prabha Ajjikuttira & Richard A Jefferson World Patent Information 43 : 12-24 Abstract Biological sequences are an important part of global patenting, with unique challenges for their effective and equitable use in practice and in policy. Because ...
Gene patent practice across plant and human genomes
Nature Biotechnology, October 08, 2015 Author: Jefferson, O.A., Köllhofer, D., Ehrich, T.H. & Jefferson, R. A. Nature Biotechnology 33 (10) 1033-1038 In human medicine, a successful new product or process can create a strong economic incentive to pay whatever it takes to be healthy, with the potential profit in conventional ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“Grist” focus on Innovation Cartography
Cambia Patent Lens, October 28, 2013 Author: Nathanael Johnson A 16th-century Dutchman can tell us everything we need to know about GMO patents Richard Jefferson was talking fast, too fast for me to take notes. He was trying to explain what’s wrong with our food system, and what to do about it, but there was too much to say, and ...
Cambia again ranked as one of the world’s top NGOs
The Global Journal, January 23, 2013 Author: The Global Journal From the Global Journal: Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition Keeping Our Eyes Wide Open by Jean-Christophe Nothias – Editor, The Global Journal, January 23, 2013 “The second edition of our Top 100 NGOs ranking is stronger, and we enjoy not only the fantastic outreach from the ...