Colleagues/ FYI: Patent Lens TM : Free/FullText Life Sciences Patent Database [ http://www.bios.net/daisy/bios/50 ] /Gerry TM Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu *************************************************************************** The patent informatics and analysis component of the BIOS initiative aims to assist both professionals and non-professionals to understand and navigate the intellectual property landscape within the life sciences. These tools are an important and necessary component of the BIOS initiative, as they can assist the user to determine the IP boundaries of what is free and what is not free. Perhaps more appropriately this can be framed as: what are the constraints on deliverable innovations, and what are the useable building blocks for future innovations? The resource was initially developed by CAMBIA, as the CAMBIA IP Resource (formerly www.cambiaIP.org). The Intellectual Property (IP) resource currently consists of a fully text-searchable patents database which has recently been greatly expanded to contain 1,500,000 life science patents from the US, Australian and European-based databases, and will soon include others. We also present some key technology patent landscape analyses (white papers), guides to IP policies & practices and intellectual property tutorials. The CAMBIA-BIOS patent search resource now includes INPADOC patent family information provided by the national patent offices of over 70 countries, as well as status information provided by many of these countries. Once you have searched the patent and patent application database and identified patents of interest, a link on the search results page *************************************************************************** BIOS - Biological Innovation for Open Society - is a new initiative of CAMBIA to extend the metaphor and concepts of Open Source to biotechnology and other forms of innovation in biology. [ http://www.bios.net/daisy/bios/15 ] *************************************************************************** Hear Also NPR interview on Science Friday with Richard Jefferson, chairman and chief executive officer, chief scientist CAMBI [ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4495604 ] ************************************************************************** Read also NYTimes article [ http://www.bios.net/daisy/bios/470 ] ************************************************************************* And the Original Nature artilce [ http://www.bios.net/daisy/bios/462 ]