知识共享项目的愿景是普及研究和教育，卡塔尔vs葡萄牙分析全面参与文化，推动发展、增长和生产力的新时代。协作、分享和合作是我们的天性——建立社区、合作实现共同利益、创造共享利益是我们的核心。But we know there’s a lot of failed sharing too, including missed opportunities,openwashing, and legal loopholes that permit individuals to take advantage of those who wish to share.
Today the Electronic Frontier Foundation is launchingReclaim Invention, a project that calls for reforms to the sharing of technologies developed within universities. The first step in the project is to get universities to stop selling inventions to patent trolls.
Apatent trollis a person or company that serve no purpose but to amass patents and demand money from other innovators and inventors. Inventions made at universities in science, medicine, and technology should be made as widely available as possible—not locked up by companies whose sole purpose is to buy up patent rights and threaten other companies with lawsuits. This initiative is common sense: universities shouldn’t sell patents to trolls.
This project dovetails with other initiatives supporting openness in higher education. For example, universities have adopted open access policies to ensure the scholarly research published by their faculty remains accessible. Andopen coursewareprojects have flourished across campuses to share rich educational content on countless subjects.
Reclaim Inventionis asking universities across the U.S. to sign thePublic Interest Patent Pledge. It’s a promise that before selling or licensing its patents to a third party, a university will assess the business practices of that party to make sure that it’s not selling to a troll.
We’re proud to support this project alongsideEFF,Engine,Fight for the Future,Knowledge Ecology International, andPublic Knowledge.When universities invent, those inventions should benefit everyone.
