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THE NEWS BIOS — Biological Innovation for Open Society — is a project that aims to revolutionize biological inventions by providing alternatives to intellectual property protection. BIOS was created by CAMBIA, an Australian not-for-profit biotechnology group that was the talk of the media when it published a plant transformation strategy that does not depend on the patented Agrobacterium. The new method is protected by an open-source license that allows users to benefit from an invention without the obstacles associated with patent protection, while safeguarding the rights of the inventor. But there is much more to BIOS. Its extensive web site defines it as "a new initiative [...] to extend the metaphor and concepts of Open Source to biotechnology and other forms of innovation in biology". The Patent Lens part of the web site includes a wealth of information on intellectual property. You can search for patents and find out about intellectual property policies and practices. The Technology Landscape link will take you to documents that describe the state of patent protection surrounding selected key areas of research, although, for now, the focus is mainly on plant biotechnologies. There are even tutorials, for example, on how to read a patent! BioForge — a new community for biological innovation — is an important part of the BIOS initiative. It is a virtual platform for worldwide collaboration and resource sharing, within the open-source philosophy of BIOS. If you have an inventive streak in you or had your research options limited by patents, this is the web site for you. Open Source has had a huge impact on the software industry; the time has come to test it in the biotechnology world. |
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