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Patents Being Abused To Put Your Life In Danger
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| Bob Austin, who for many years has worked in major metropolitan fire and EMS
| departments, had the idea of creating an open source medical dispatch system.
| Such a system would have numerous benefits. Beyond being a free system, it
| also would allow best practices to easily bubble up in a way that actively
| would help save lives. If another EMS department could improve on the system,
| they easily could do so and contribute it back to the community.
|
| [...]
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| The whole situation is rather sickening, and I'm really hoping that folks
| here might be able to help see if we can get this project back on track.
| Priority Dispatch's decision to scare these open source developers into
| submission for merely offering up a free project to help save lives is really
| a rather disgusting use of the patent system, and obviously goes against the
| very purpose of that system: "to promote the progress of science and the
| useful arts." Instead, such things are being actively stymied in a way that
| puts all of us at risk.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090308/0932074028.shtml
Recent:
Patent system 'stifling science'
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| The traditional view is that strong patent protection stimulates innovation,
| reassuring companies that it is safe to invest in research without fear of
| being stung by rivals.
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| [...]
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| The full benefits of synthetic biology and nanotechnology will not be
| realised without urgent reforms to encourage sharing of information, they
| say.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7632318.stm
Related:
Patents Over Patients
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| Potential anticancer drugs should be judged on their scientific merit,
| not on their patentability.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/opinion/01moss.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Open Source Pharmaceuticals - New Business Model
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| "Open source" as applied to culture defines a culture in which
| intellectual property is made generally available. Participants
| in such a culture are able to improve and modify those products
| and redistribute them back into the community.
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http://www.farmavita.net/content/view/336/51/
Thailand fed up with high drug prices - minister
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| "We have thought about this for more than five years. It's long enough,"
| said Mongkol na Songkhla, who is leading one of the biggest challenges to
| Big Pharma's patent rights in years.
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http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/2/19/worldupdates/2007-02-19T014311Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_-288239-1&sec=worldupdates
Biology Goes Open Source
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| Some of the world's biggest drug companies are finding that
| their genetic research is worth more to them if they give it away.
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http://www.forbes.com/business/2007/02/12/novartis-genes-diabetes-research-biz-cz_mh_0212novartis.html?partner=rss
http://tinyurl.com/2vqssl
Free Software Helps Hospitals Prepare for Mass Casualties
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| Johns Hopkins emergency medicine specialists have developed a tool to help
| hospitals prepare for disasters with the potential to overwhelm services.
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http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2007/19mar07/19casual.html
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