Synthetic Biology: Caught between Property Rights, the Public Domain, and the Commons
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- 13 March 2007
- journal article
- essay
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Biology
- Vol. 5 (3), e58
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050058
Abstract
Synthetic biology presents a particularly revealing example of the difficulty of assimilating a new technology into the conceptual limits around existing intellectual property rights.Keywords
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