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

• Nanotechnology patent delays bad for (almost) everyone

  A story by Jon Van describes the growing backlog of nanotechnology patent applications: As the time it takes to process patent applications now averages almost four years, double the time it took in 2004, nanotech entrepreneurs are beginning to worry that Read more
  Posted Monday, November 27, 2006 9:40 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Future Medicine, Intellectual Property, Investment/Entrepreneuring, Nano, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology Politics, Opinion, Economics, Complexity, Government programs

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

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