Open-source nanotechnology: Solutions to a modern intellectual property tragedy
Open-source nanotechnology: Solutions to a modern intellectual property tragedy
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10.1016/j.nantod.2013.04.001
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发表时间：
2013-08-01
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17.4
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Pearce, Joshua M.
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作者：
Pearce, Joshua M.
尽管纳米技术是专利申请极其活跃的领域，但当前的知识产权法正在损害纳米技术的发展。与当时的其他新兴领域相比，纳米技术是随着《拜杜尔法案》使大学能够锁定基础研究而诞生的，从而有效地防止了公开竞争。纳米技术专利申请的技术复杂性和官僚主义处理不当，造成了权利要求和权利重叠的密集专利丛林。由于交易成本过高，这种知识产权悲剧阻碍了更复杂技术的开发，从而限制了下游创新。本文通过应用软件开发中的免费和开源范例来解决这一悲剧，因为开源方法将加速纳米技术创新并提高纳米技术研究公共投资的社会回报。 (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. 保留所有权利。
Despite being an extremely active area for patent applications, nanotechnology development is being impaired by current intellectual property law. In contrast to other emerging fields at their times, nanotechnology was born as the Bayh Dole Act enabled universities to lock down fundamental research effectively preventing open competition. Both technical complexity and bureaucratic mishandling of nanotechnology patent applications have created a dense patent thicket of overlapping claims and rights. This intellectual property tragedy restricts downstream innovation by preventing development of more complex technologies due to exorbitant transaction costs. This article addresses this tragedy with the application of the free and open-source paradigm from software development as open-source methodologies will both accelerate nanotechnology innovation and improve the social return from public investment in nanotechnology research. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.