Patent Lens(tm): Patent Database Associated with the 'Open Source' Biology Project

[Gerry Mckiernan]

Colleagues/

FYI: Patent Lens TM :  Free/FullText Life Sciences Patent Database
 
[ http://www.bios.net/daisy/bios/50  ] 
 
/Gerry 
TM Librarian 
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu 

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The patent informatics and analysis component of the BIOS initiative
aims to assist both professionals and non-professionals to understand
and navigate the intellectual property landscape within the life
sciences. These tools are an important and necessary component of the
BIOS initiative, as they can assist the user to determine the IP
boundaries of what is free and what is not free. Perhaps more
appropriately this can be framed as: what are the constraints on
deliverable innovations, and what are the useable building blocks for
future innovations?

The resource was initially developed by CAMBIA, as the CAMBIA IP
Resource (formerly www.cambiaIP.org). The Intellectual Property (IP)
resource currently consists of a fully text-searchable patents database
which has recently been greatly expanded to contain 1,500,000 life
science patents from the US, Australian and European-based databases,
and will soon include others. We also present some key technology patent
landscape analyses (white papers), guides to IP policies & practices and
intellectual property tutorials.

The CAMBIA-BIOS patent search resource now includes INPADOC patent
family information provided by the national patent offices of over 70
countries, as well as status information provided by many of these
countries. Once you have searched the patent and patent application
database and identified patents of interest, a link on the search
results page 

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BIOS - Biological Innovation for Open Society - is a new initiative of
CAMBIA to extend the metaphor and concepts of Open Source to
biotechnology and other forms of innovation in biology.

[ http://www.bios.net/daisy/bios/15 ]

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Hear Also NPR interview on Science Friday with 
Richard Jefferson, chairman and chief executive officer, chief
scientist CAMBI

[ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4495604 ]

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Read also NYTimes article

[ http://www.bios.net/daisy/bios/470 ]

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And the Original Nature artilce

[  http://www.bios.net/daisy/bios/462 ]