Keeping score, strengthening policy and fighting bad actors over access to research tools

Tania Bubela; Robert Cook-Deegan

doi:10.1038/nbt.3131

Keeping score, strengthening policy and fighting bad actors over access to research tools

Nat Biotechnol. 2015 Feb;33(2):143-7. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3131.

Authors

Tania Bubela¹, Robert Cook-Deegan²

Affiliations

¹ School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
² Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA and a Senior Fellow at FasterCures, a Center of the Milken Institute in Washington, DC.

Abstract

A mix of policy options that enhance access to research tools are available to courts, legislators and government bureaucracies, including research agencies and patent offices.

MeSH terms

Biotechnology / legislation & jurisprudence*
Humans
Intellectual Property*
Licensure / legislation & jurisprudence*
Patents as Topic
Translational Research, Biomedical / legislation & jurisprudence*
United States

Abstract

MeSH terms

Grants and funding