Combining the best features of IP informatics services and online patent exchanges in an industry-specific collective rights organization could free up agricultural research by creating paths through the growing thickets of competing property claims.
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Graff, G., Zilberman, D. An intellectual property clearinghouse for agricultural biotechnology. Nat Biotechnol 19, 1179–1180 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1201-1179
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