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Understand your freedom to operate with respect to patent laws in different parts of the world, including patent tutorials and the implications of patent policies and practices on research, development, trade and society.

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Patent Lens New Features

Search technology now independent of language; Chinese (中文) PCTs now fully text-searchable.
Search for lapsed, abandoned or expired US Patents.
Visualize Patent Families with new graphical trees as PDFs.
Patent Landscapes on Influenza Genes, Rice Genome and Adjuvants now online.
Protein & DNA Sequence searching of over 68 million sequences from worldwide patent collections.

Patent Lens in the News

Richard Jefferson gives Keynote presentation at ABIC 2008

Open source has revolutionized and energized information and communications technology. It has created billions in new wealth and new opportunities.

Richard Jefferson Interviewed in Com Ciência

Com Ciência No. 102, Brazil
October 5, 2008
Brazil's leading online science journal interviews Richard Jefferson for a special issue on synthetic biology

Joint effort on patents

The Australian, Australia
September 24, 2008
CAMBIA and the Queensland University of Technology are collaborating in the cause of making the patent system easier to navigate across a range of areas ......

Monty Says - Blog of Monty Widenius

Monty Says, USA
June 28, 2008
MySQL Founders Monty Widenius & David Axmark sponsor and support Patent Lens

Nature Biotechnology editorial, May 2006 (info)

The ability to interpret and filter intellectual property (IP) has never been more important...CAMBIA's Patent Lens is a giant leap in the right direction"

Red Herring Cover-story and editorial, April 17, 2006 (info)

Patent transparency is the lifeblood of the new open source" -Influential IT mag features CAMBIA's role in changing the face of life sciences innovation. (info)

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