Open Access para patentes biotecnológicas
La cantidad de propiedad intelectual que está generando la I+D en Biotecnología es tan grande, que hacen falta mecanismos para gestionar toda la información disponible y la que va apareciendo constantemente.
En un editorial aparecido en Nature en mayo de 2006 y como nos hace notar Peter Suber en su blog:
With the proliferation of gene patents and the increasing profusion of biotech patents and licenses with overlapping and competing rights, the ability to interpret and filter intellectual property (IP) has never been more important. Last month’s announcement by Australian startup CAMBIA, and its initiative BIOS (Biological Innovation for Open Society), of the creation of an open-access patent database collating IP data from several national patent offices promises to radically improve that process….[S]earching for a biotech patent has become an inexplicably frustrating and convoluted process. There is no streamlined and universal approach for searching patents filed at the various national and international patent offices….
Fortunately, help is now at hand. CAMBIA’s Patent Lens is a freely accessible IP database that contains 2.5 million patents from the USPTO, EPO and PCT, together with a powerful search engine. The interface makes possible searches of the full text of patents from all these patent databases…. It is estimated that underexploitation of technical information (an estimated 80% of which is published in patent documentation and nowhere else) costs European industry alone $20 billion each year-simply because the inability to access relevant patent information results in duplication of effort or the creation of products that overlap with prior art.
Quizá en ninguna otra disciplina antes, la combinación de la investigación científica (en este caso, la biotecnología y todoas sus derivadas…) con la gestión del concimiento había sido tan necesaria. La enorme cantidad de datos que genera la genómica, por ejemplo, requiere que se trate y comparta la información de una manera apropiada. También hay que remarcar que el acceso a dicha información (como mínimo la obtenida con fondos públicos) debe ser accesible universalmente.
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