On November 17, 2005, the National Academies' Science, Technology and Economic Policy (STEP) Board and the Science, Technology, and Law Committee will release a joint report commissioned by the National Institutes of Health. Committee co-chairs Shirley Tilghman, President of Princeton University, and Roderick McKelvie, Covington and Burling (and retired Judge, Federal District Court of Delaware), will present the report at a public briefing at 2:00 PM in Room 100 of the Keck building at 500 Fifth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. The meeting is open to the public without advance reservation. The briefing will be webcast and the report and press release can be accessed at [the National Academies site] on the 17th. The report documents trends in patenting and licensing in several categories of genetic and protein research, differences between US practices and those in Europe and Japan, and the impact of these practices on academic and corporate research directed at identifying disease mechanisms and therapeutic and diagnostic advances. Recommendations are addressed to the NIH and other government and private research funding agencies, the courts and the US Patent and Trademark Office, Congress, and the research community at large. The report includes the results of a new survey of bench scientists on their experience with intellectual property acquisition and access and sharing of data and research materials.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/12/2005 08:02:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
