Intellectual property: Stalking trolls
Intellectual property: After being blamed for stymying innovation in America, vague and overly broad patents on software and business processes could get the chop AT LAST, it seems, something is to be...
View ArticleNew Study Exposes the Growing Problem of Patent Aggregators and Aggregators’...
Research to be published in Science on April 29, 2016 shows how cash-hungry patent trolls are squelching innovation when the American economy depends on it more than ever. What should be done? The new...
View ArticlePatents: The Next Open Access Fight
When Universities Sell Patents to Trolls, Publicly Funded Research Is Compromised There’s been a lot of talk lately about the state of publicly funded research. Many, including EFF, have long called on...
View ArticleHow patent trolls hijacked the building blocks of life
There were three great scientific horse races in the last century. The first two, the race to the moon and the race to split the atom have been widely reported. The race to sequence the human genome...
View ArticleSupreme Court Rejects Patents on 2 Naturally Occurring Genes
The Supreme Court today unanimously struck down patents on BRCA1 and BRCA2 When Angelina Jolie announced last month that she decided to get a prophylactic double mastectomy, she based her decision on...
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