But as the end of Claritin's patent approached, the Food and Drug Administration concluded that prescription sales should be reserved for drugs that are less safe than those sold over the counter.
Similarly, there are worldwide variations in ethical and patenting approaches to cell therapies that will make successful exploitation of the emerging science particularly difficult.
If we accept this view, then governance question becomes: how do we capitalize on the intersections of open source and patenting approaches, as well as the co-production between law and biology, so as to steer SynBio in a positive and productive way?
Their collaborative effort was in bitter competition to the private and patent-hungry approach of an American team under Venter.
He cited a patent that covers the choosing of a car color when buying a vehicle over the Internet, and asked: "Given that auto salesmen have never patented their approach on the salesroom floor, is there a published record of activity of auto salesmen?
This should make it easier for companies and researchers in poor countries to use agricultural gene-transfer technology, which today's patent-licensing approach impedes".The idea is to try to craft a system so that we have a different way to do business," says Richard Jefferson, the head of CAMBIA and a co-author of the paper.
If you haven't already noticed, the number of patent trolls and sneaky me-first companies suing over digital audio-related patents is approaching infinity.
By applying a patent landscape approach, the study offers a quantitative perspective on current developments in waste heat recovery technology, provides indicators of future trends, and contributes to debate about technological competition in the automotive industry.
Its patent pending approach to virtualizing the Windows' desktop environment enables users to carry their PC-based work environment on portable devices such as USB flash drives, pocket hard drives, network drives and even mobile phones.
Paragraf reckons it's onto something that can help accelerate developments though, having come up with what it says is a novel (and patent-protected) approach to manufacturing graphene for commercial use-cases — so in larger and better quantities and qualities than the small flakes that have typically been the production rule so far.
