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Patent pooling for gene-based diagnostic testing : conceptual framework / Birgit Verbeure

Case 1. The MPEG LA licensing model : what problem does it solve in biopharma and genetics? / Lawrence A. Horn

Case 2. The SARS case : IP fragmentation and patent pools / Carmen E. Correa

Critical analysis of patent pools / Jorge A. Goldstein

Clearinghouse mechanisms in genetic diagnostics : conceptual framework / Esther van Zimmeren

Case 3. The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) : an example of an information clearinghouse / James L. Edwards

Case 4. BirchBob : an example of a technology exchange clearinghouse / Esther van Zimmeren and Dirk Avau

Case 5. The Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture (PIPRA) : a standard license public sector clearinghouse for agricultural IP / Alan B. Bennett and Sara Boettiger

Case 6. The Science Commons Material Transfer Agreement Project : a standard license clearinghouse? / Thinh Nguyen.

Case 7. The collective management of copyright and neighbouring rights : an example of a royalty collection clearing house / Jan Corbet

Comment on the conceptual framework for a clearinghouse mechanism / Michael Spence

Open source genetics : a conceptual framework / Janet Hope

Case 8. Cambia's Biological Open Source Initiative (BiOS) / Nele Berthels

Case 9. Diversity Arrays Technology Pty Ltd. (DArT) : applying the open source philosophy in agriculture / Andrzej Kilian

Critical commentary on 'open source' in the life sciences / Arti K. Rai

Several kinds of 'should' : the ethics of open source in life sciences innovation / Antony S. Taubman

Pathways across the valley of death : novel intellectual property strategies for accelerated drug discovery / Arti K. Rai ... [et al.]

Case 10. The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) : the Standard Material Transfer Agreement as implementation of a limited compensatory liability regime / Victoria Henson-Apollonio.

Critical analysis : property rules, liability rules and molecular futures : bargaining in the shadow of the cathedral / Dan L. Burk

Gene patents : from discovery to invention, a geneticist's view / Gert Matthijs and Gert-Jan B. Van Ommen

'Patent tsunami' in the field of genetic diagnostics : a patent practitioner's view / Jacques Warcoin

Gene patents and clearing models : some comments from a competition law perspective / Hanns Ullrich

Access to genetic patents and clearinghouse model : an economic perspective / Reiko Aoki

The role of law, institutions and governance in facilitating access to the scientific research commons : a philosopher's perspective / Tom Dedeurwaerdere

Of thickets, blocks and gaps : designing tools to resolve obstacles in the gene patents landscape / Geertrui Van Overwalle.

Genetics - ethics.

Genetics - legislation & jurisprudence.

Licensure - legislation & jurisprudence.

Models, Economic.

Patents as Topic - ethics.

Patents as Topic - legislation & jurisprudence.