Internet exchanges suggest an easy route to sourcing and licensing technology, but can biotech intellectual property be packaged up and sold in this way?
There are sites for buying and selling most hings on the internet, and intellectual property (IP) is no exception. The earliest of these IP exchanges sprang up at the height of the dot-com boom, when there was a rush to set up electronic marketplaces to ease business-to-business transactions of all sorts. Whereas selling paper clips and office statio-nery is one thing, it remains unclear—even a decade after the first IP sites were launched—if biotech patents and knowledge can be packaged, bought and sold in this way.
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