Hi Graeme, in my experience, institutions encourage patents. I suppose it is a simple way to demonstrate that Universities produce something of value (money is easy to count, value of thought is not). Personally, I think research should be as open as possible, in hardware, software, and publications. The best quote is from a patent lawyer during a presentation at Park InnoVaare (PSI - sorry, forgot the person's name)
"Industry turns knowledge into money - Research turns money into knowledge." When we take a look at the value of the companies, the money we use for research is well invested (and really just peanuts). Cheers, Tim On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 08:17:35 +0000 "Winter, Graeme (DLSLtd,RAL,LSCI)" <graeme.win...@diamond.ac.uk> wrote: > Discussion topics: > > - does this have any hope of being enforced since - as you point out > - it is a pretty obvious next step from X-rays > - does anyone else who is _already doing this_ care > - should we (individuals, not community) be patenting the obvious / > ideas / “inventions” just in case? > > (well aware that the authors of said patent will wake up to this in a > few hours) > > Personally, I am not comfortable with this, but maybe I am a dinosaur? > > Graeme > > [...] > [...] > [...] > > -- -- Tim Gruene Head of the Centre for X-ray Structure Analysis Faculty of Chemistry University of Vienna Phone: +43-1-4277-70202 GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
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