[Insight-users] How Patents Promote Progress

[Luis Ibanez]

About 20% of human genes were covered with patents by 2005:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/310/5746/239

This intellectual appropriation landscape is so "useful" for
promoting progress, that now researchers have to develop
databases just to keep track of patent claims, and to
disentangle "Who claims to own What":

         http://www.scfbm.org/content/2/1/4

"Conclusions
PatentMatrix allows a rapid survey of patents associated with genes or
proteins in a particular area of interest as defined by keywords. It can
be efficiently used to evaluate the IP-related novelty of scientific
findings and to rank genes or proteins according to their IP position. "



      ...No wonder people continue dying of cancer...


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