Considering that the USPTO free full-text searchable patent database
contains close to 3 million patents and close to 1 million pregrant
applications, some taming of the hype may be in order.
Michael White wrote:
>The open source/open access movement is moving forward
>in biotechnology research. Here's an interesting
>development that was reported recently in Nature.
>
>A team of researchers in Australia and Europe has
>invented a new method of transfering genes to plants
>using bacteria outside the genus Agrobacterium, which
>until now has had a patent lock on gene transfer in
>plant biotechnology. Their paper appears in the Feb.
>10 issue of Nature. The researchers are affiliated
>with CAMBIA, a research center of Charles Sturt Univ.
>in Canberra and a founding member of the BIOS
>initiative. According to the CAMBIA web site,
>"BIOS (Biological Innovation for Open Society) is
>developing new means for cooperative invention,
>improvement and delivery of biological technologies."
>The web site includes the "world's largest free
>full-text searchable patent database." (1.5 million
>life science patents from the U.S., Australian and
>European-based patent databases.)
>
>CAMBIA
>http://www.cambia.org/
>
>Biological Innovation for Open Society
>http://www.bios.net/daisy/bios/15
>
>"Gene Transfer to plants by diverse species of
>bacteria"
>Wim Broothaerts, et al., Nature 433, Feb. 10, 2005,
>629-633
>http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v433/n7026/abs/nature03309_fs.html
>
>
>-Mike White
> Kingston, Ontario
>
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