Articles about Patentleft and BiOS license

[Xiaofeng Yao]

All,

I read these articles and like to share with you. They are talking about patent for royalty-free use, and biological innovation for open society (BiOS).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patentleft

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_Innovation_for_Open_Society

https://cambia.org/bios-landing/

Xiaofeng

[Nicole Foti]

Here is a related paper. Seems relevant for IP perspective and discusses patentleft, peer production, and BioBricks Public Agreement.

https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=6042&context=fss_papers

Here is a segment from the conclusion:

"What openness might mean in the patent-dominated context of biotechnology remains unclear, however, and has required a reassessment of the analogy to “copyleft” that had provided initial inspiration to the scientists and activists interested in open synthetic biology. I focused especially on the role of the BioBricks Foundation in this effort and explored the rationale behind the decision to pursue a “public domain” agenda via a new legal agreement, the BioBrick™ Public Agreement.

The success of this public domain strategy depends on the viability of peer

production without the advantages of legal coercion available through a “share-alike” licensing provision. In scrutinizing the motivations behind peer production, I borrowed from recent philosophical work critical of the conceptualization of the free rider problem to argue for the rationality of decentralized cooperation, even where individual contributions to a collective project are small. The rationality of such cooperation depends, however, on threshold effects that mark the efficaciousness of individual action in collective endeavors. In the context of

intellectual property, I argued that these thresholds are determined by the presence or absence of shared technical platforms."

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[Thornton Thompson]

Bouncing off this, it could be useful for us to try and get in touch with someone from BIOS to more deeply explore possibilities for a patentleft practice to our work. I'm not sure I have capacity to really deeply dive into that though. 

Relatedly, one thing I'm feeling (and I know a couple others are too), is that we've got a LOT of different things happening in Open Insulin along with a major need to figure out how we coordinate all the different work, especially with different arms of the project that need to be closely linked (e.g., patent needs & lab work). I don't know exactly what that coordination looks like, but I would like to request that we spend some serious time in our meetings to start figuring it out. 

 

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[Anthony Di Franco]

I agree on the need for better internal organization. It was my hope previously that by having people on point for each of the various areas we're focusing on we could keep some attention on each and keep things moving, but that seems to have been hindered by people's irregular schedules and lack of structure for what it means to keep on top of things.

Setting up a task management tool is also something I'm working on with the remote volunteers and which I hope will help us structure this better. In the meantime, we might try to emulate what that tool would give us ad-hoc. I'll say more in person.

Also agree on getting in touch with BIOS as an action item.

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