For July 4: Let’s Thank the Inventors

My hope for America this July 4? I hope, in 100 years, the response time to human and environmental suffering will be immediate. Until that day arrives (thanks to scientific breakthroughs funded by individual citizens) — let’s thank our scientists, investors, and inventors who work and play around us.

Finally, let’s also thank the founding fathers for knowing America’s innovative potential without seeing it for themselves.

BIO IP News Weekly for June 26, 2009

This week’s BIO IP News Weekly includes an analysis of Professor John Duffy in Business Week, an essay on technology transfer and university-industry collaboration in the Scientist Magazine, updates on USPTO funding and follow-on biologics, a blogger’s look at a U.S. Senator’s struggles to defend intellectual property rights, as well as a link to the recently published 2009 OECD Biotechnology Statistics report summary.

BIO IP News Weekly for June 19, 2009

This week I include a Nature Biotechnology article on scientific communications, a BBC article on river blindness, and a Heritage Foundation essay on patents.

BIO IP News Weekly for May 1, 2009

Click here to read BIO’s IP News Weekly for the week of May 1, 2009. For more information about BIO, visit www.bio.org.

BIO IP News Weekly for April 17, 2009

The IP News Weekly took a break the past couple of weeks, but this week marks my returned coverage. Visit http://www.bio.org/ip/documents/IPNewsWeeklyApril172009.pdf to view the weekly newsletter in PDF form.
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BIO IP News Weekly for March 20, 2009

BIO’s weekly newsletter of stories compiled from a variety of public news sources, previously only available to BIO members, is now publicly available: See our temporary version here to check out the news we’re following for March 20, 2009.