The Basics Of IP Protection & Commercialization Considerations
Henry Fradkin Over the past few years, les Nouvelles has published many articles that have provided new ways of doing the business of Intellectual Asset Management…and I have learned a lot from those articles. I also have noticed that LES has continued to grow substantially with many new people entering into the IP protection and […]
Strategies For Satisfying The Need For Research Material
Victor RodriguezKoenraad Debackere Concern for the access to research material—broadly defined to include cell lines, monoclonal antibodies, reagents, animal models, combinatorial chemistry libraries, clones and cloning tools, databases, and software under some circumstance—is not new nor has it gone unaddressed. In response to complaints from researchers that restrictive terms in material transfer agreements (MTAs) were […]
GPL, Version 3: The Perils Of Ideological Extremism
Francis M. BuonoMcLean Sieverding On June 29, 2007, following more than a year and a half of contentious debate and controversy surrounding numerous proposed revisions to the General Public License (“GPL”), the Free Software Foundation (“FSF”) released the final text of the third version of the GPL (“GPLv3”). For those developers that choose to adopt […]
