Patents
Nature Biotechnology 25, 419 - 424 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nbt0407-419
The global stem cell patent landscape: implications for efficient technology transfer and commercial development
Karl Bergman1 & Gregory D. Graff2
Abstract
Characteristics of the complex and growing stem cell patent landscape indicate strategies by which public sector research institutions could improve the efficiency of intellectual property agreements and technology transfers in stem cells.
- Karl Bergman is at the Göteborg International Bioscience Business School and Center for Intellectual Property Studies, Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden e-mail: mail@karlbergman.se
- Gregory D. Graff is at the Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture (PIPRA), University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA. e-mail: gdgraff@ucdavis.edu
