TY  - GEN
N2  - Veteran science journalist Seth Shulman takes us on a shocking journey through today's battles for control over the intangible new assets - genes, software, databases, and scientific information - that make up the lifeblood of the new economy. We meet doctors who sue colleagues for using new medical procedures they claim to own. We find university researchers thrown in jail for "stealing" their own ideas; software firms holding the entire industry for ransom over basic, widely used programming techniques; and life-saving cancer treatments kept from dying patients by legal wrangles over the underlying technology.
AB  - Veteran science journalist Seth Shulman takes us on a shocking journey through today's battles for control over the intangible new assets - genes, software, databases, and scientific information - that make up the lifeblood of the new economy. We meet doctors who sue colleagues for using new medical procedures they claim to own. We find university researchers thrown in jail for "stealing" their own ideas; software firms holding the entire industry for ransom over basic, widely used programming techniques; and life-saving cancer treatments kept from dying patients by legal wrangles over the underlying technology.
T1  - Owning the future /
AU  - Shulman, Seth,
CN  - HC79.T4
CN  - HC79T4
ID  - 23630
KW  - Patent licenses.
KW  - Exchanges of patents and technical information.
KW  - Échanges de brevets d'invention et d'information technique.
KW  - Propriété intellectuelle.
KW  - Information technology.
KW  - High technology industries.
KW  - Knowledge management.
KW  - Intellectual property.
KW  - Diffusion of innovations.
KW  - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY : ECONOMIC ASPECTS : FORECASTING
KW  - KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
KW  - EXCHANGES OF PATENTS AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
KW  - INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY : GENERAL WORKS : GENERAL STUDIES
KW  - HIGH TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRIES : FORECASTING
KW  - PATENT LICENSES
KW  - Technologie de l'information
SN  - 0395841755
TI  - Owning the future /
ER  -