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• Nanotechnology patent problems blamed on unionization

  Small Times reports on a meeting held in Oregon among a wide variety of nanotechnology-based business participants, at which many commercialization challenges were discussed. One was difficulties encountered with the U.S. Patent office: Start-ups expressed Read more
  Posted Monday, April 09, 2007 4:47 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 1 Comments

  Tags: Nanobusiness, Nanotechnology Politics, Ethics, Opinion, Open Source, Investment/Entrepreneuring, Nanotechnology, Economics, Nanotech, Nano, Intellectual Property, Complexity, Nanojobs

• Windows Vista: potential negative impact on nanotechnology

  John Walker brings to our attention an apparently distressing set of concerning regarding the new version of Windows, known as Vista, written up by Peter Gutman as A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection. Excerpts: The only way to protect the HFS Read more
  Posted Monday, February 12, 2007 3:58 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Environment, Health, and Safety, Ethics, Opinion, Open Source, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano, Intellectual Property, Complexity, Computational nanotechnology

• Nanotechnology: Lessons from open source biotech

  Roger Brent, director of the Molecular Sciences Institute in Berkeley, is a leader in open source biotech: Putting his patents where his principles are, Dr. Brent’s institute has drafted an “Open Source Policy” which commits to “[making] Read more
  Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 7:07 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanotechnology Politics, Ethics, Opinion, Open Source, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano, Intellectual Property

• U.S. nanotechnology funds study ethics of human enhancement

  Patrick Lin over at the Nanoethics Group let us know that the principals of that group have received a US$250,000 grant from the NSF to study the ethics of using nanotechnology to do human enhancement, through their academic affiliations at Dartmouth and Western Read more
  Posted Tuesday, September 26, 2006 6:35 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Nanotechnology Politics, Ethics, Opinion, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano, Nanomedicine, Intellectual Property

• Nanotechnology patents delayed, nanotech public understanding mixed

  We don’t usually like to link to subscription sites, but as an editorial advisory board member, I’ll make an exception for Nanotech Briefs (you can download a free sample). The August issue has the usual hard-core technical news: SiGe transistor Read more
  Posted Monday, August 21, 2006 7:16 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Public participation, Ethics, Public Involvement, Nanotech reports & publications, Nanotechnology, Nanotech, Nano, Intellectual Property, Complexity