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Monday, February 21, 2005  


Patent Lens™

Patent Lens™ - Patent Informatics and Analysis Component of the BIOS Initiative
http://www.bios.net/daisy/bios/50

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. The patent system was created to encourage public disclosure of inventions and clear definition of each invention being protected, so that when the patent monopoly is not in force. for example when it has expired or where it was not granted, the invention may be used for further innovation. 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 usable 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 we are working to include others. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.[Thanks to Gerry McKiernan for this find]

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