Social:Patentleft
Licensing of patents |
---|
Overviews |
Types |
Strategies |
Clauses in patent licenses |
Higher category: Patents, Patent law |
Patentleft is the practice of licensing patents (especially biological patents) for royalty-free use, on the condition that adopters license related improvements they develop under the same terms. Copyleft-style licensors seek "continuous growth of a universally accessible technology commons" from which they, and others, will benefit.[1][2]
Patentleft is analogous to copyleft, a license that allows distribution of a copyrighted work and derived works, but only under the same or equivalent terms.
Uses
The Biological Innovation for Open Society (BiOS) project implemented a patentleft system to encourage re-contribution and collaborative innovation of their technology. BiOS holds patented technology for transferring genes in plants, and licenses the technology under the terms that, if a license holder improves the gene transfer tool and patents the improvement, then their improvement must be made available to all the other license holders.[3]
The open patent idea is designed to be practiced by consortia of research-oriented companies[4] and increasingly by standards bodies. These also commonly use open trademark methods to ensure some compliance with a suite of compatibility tests, e.g. Java, X/Open both of which forbid the use of the mark by the non-compliant.[citation needed]
On October 12, 2001 the Free Software Foundation and Finite State Machine Labs Inc. (FSMLabs) announced a GPL-compliant open-patent license for FSMLabs' software patent, US patent 5995745. Titled the Open RTLinux patent license Version 2, it provides for usage of this patent in accordance with the GPL.[5]
See also
- Copyleft
- Gratis versus libre
- Open content
- Open Invention Network
- Open Patent Alliance
- Open source
- Patent troll
- Public domain
- Software patent
- Viral license
References
- ↑ Hope, Janet (2008). The Red Book of Varieties and Schemes. Lecture Notes in Mathematics. 1358. Harvard University Press. pp. 176–187. doi:10.1007/b62130. ISBN 978-0-674-02635-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=IPTwYNqpJWgC.
- ↑ Open Patent license proposal at openpatents.org
- ↑ John T. Wilbanks and Thomas J. Wilbanks, "Science, Open Communication and Sustainable Development", 13 April 2010, "[1]"
- ↑ Cambia Biosciences Initiative
- ↑ FSF/FSMLabs press release for the RTLinux Open Patent License, October 12, 2001.
Further reading
- Ménage, Guillaume; Dietrich, Yann (March 2010). ""Patent Left"". Les Nouvelles (Licensing Executives Society International): 42–46. http://www.lesi.org/images/60d5b196-0941-407d-a3d0-8c79d678c6bf.pdf. Retrieved 2010-11-30.
- Richard Stallman (1999-06-22). "On "Free Hardware"". http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999-06-22-005-05-NW-LF-0049. — Richard Stallman criticizes patentleft because of cost of applying for patents
External links
- https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Patentleft
- Open Hardware Licenses
- Standardized Terms and Conditions For Open Patenting
- Find Biological Parents
![]() | Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patentleft.
Read more |