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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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^New Influenza gene patents and Rice Genome patent landscapes now online.

Patent Lens in the Press

...efforts to make the claims of patents ... more transparent and navigable, such as the Patent Lens ...should be supported by all." -editorial in the May 2007 issue of The Plant Cell (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" - editorial in the May 2006 issue of -Nature Biotechnology (info)

"Patent transparency is the lifeblood of the new open source" -Influential IT mag Red Herring (info) cover-story and editorial in the April 17, 2006 issue features CAMBIA's role in changing the face of life sciences innovation

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Patent Lens Features

Zotero support added. Automatically add patent citations to Zotero reference manager (a FireFox plug-in).
Australian Granted Patents are now searchable in full text, just as the US and European patents have been since last year. Read the press release: Australian Patents Now Under The Lens (info).
Cost-free PDF downloads now available for all US patent documents (apps and grants), Australian and European patents. Available as a multipage PDF or a single page at a time, for faster browsing.
Search result filters that retrieve US patents based on dates in force vs. expired
Protein & DNA Sequence searches for US biological sciences patents and patent applications

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