Who are we?
The BiOS Initiative is a non-profit public benefit organisation, incorporated
in compliance with the laws of California. The BiOS Initiative exists to
administer and certify Biological Open Source (BiOS)
agreements, and provide a forum for public policy initiatives to increase
open access to patented and patentable technologies for public benefit.
For information about the BiOS Initiative, and how to make contributions,
please contact
bios.foundation@bios.net or
write to the
BiOS Initiative
708 Gravenstein Highway #268
Sebastopol CA 95472
USA
Fax: +1 503 914 0408
Our goal is to empower diverse innovators and engage the creative spirit of
many more people in crafting solutions to their own challenges in food and
agriculture, natural resource management, public health or medicine. We don't
want just to initiate productive discussion, but to convert it to practical
collaborations with activities such as:
- Porting the concepts, philosophies, normative behaviours, legal mechanisms
and public enthusiasm for Open Source into the vastly more challenging area of
patents, and biological research and development. We've already started doing
this via a normative license and
associated agreements for materials and information transfer, which can be used
for any patented or patentable technology, not just ours.
- Pioneering new, cost-free public access databases, parsing and
informatics-rich technologies, the Patent
Lens, to render the massive, complex and opaque world of patents and IP into
a transparent and stimulating structure for the public good, as originally
intended by framers of patent systems.
- Elucidating and supporting the social and policy initiatives to make these
things happen, with constructive engagement in patent law reform, international
genetic resources policy, and much more.
- Describing practical business models that can encourage the development of
robust, economically viable small-to-medium enterprise formation to address
neglected market opportunities.
- Making new opportunities to engage the worldwide life sciences R&D
community, empowering decentralized innovations and innovators.
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