[Pharm-policy] 2 Articles from Science

[James Love]

These were two influential articles in Science about patents.
The first one, about the "anticommons," was an influential 
statement of the costs of patents on innovation, and a
call for policies that limited the use of restrictive
licensing of intellectual property.   Jamie
  
  Jamie

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/280/5364/698
Can Patents Deter Innovation? The Anticommons in Biomedical Research 
Michael A. Heller, Rebecca S. Eisenberg 
Volume 280, Number 5364 Issue of 1 May 1998, pp. 698 - 701 
1998 by The American Association for the Advancement of Science. 


http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/280/5364/689
BIOTECHNOLOGY:
The Patenting of DNA
Volume 280, Number 5364 Issue of 1 May 1998, pp. 689 - 690 
1998 by The American Association for the Advancement of Science. 


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