{"id":176,"date":"2008-05-13T11:15:46","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T15:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/2008\/05\/13\/shared-patent-group-for-eco-innovati"},"modified":"2008-05-13T11:16:27","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T15:16:27","slug":"shared-patent-group-for-eco-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/2008\/05\/13\/shared-patent-group-for-eco-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Shared patent group for eco-innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While IBM was again the #1 organization in receiving over 3,100 patents in the US in 2007, it has taken an alternative approach to the environment, with regards to patent development.\u00a0 In January, IBM created an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbcsd.org\/templates\/TemplateWBCSD5\/layout.asp?type=p&amp;MenuId=MTQ3NQ&amp;doOpen=1&amp;ClickMenu=LeftMenu\">Eco-Patents Common<\/a>, a group focused on sharing eco-friendly technology and innovation.\u00a0 The patent commons will be administered by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and has the participation of some large companies including Sony, Nokia and Pitney Bowes.\u00a0 The commons group was given 31 patents initially in January 2008 and expected to obtain many more in the coming years.\u00a0 Kudos to IBM for getting the industry to work together on this..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While IBM was again the #1 organization in receiving over 3,100 patents in the US in 2007, it has taken an alternative approach to the environment, with regards to patent development.\u00a0 In January, IBM created an Eco-Patents Common, a group focused on sharing eco-friendly technology and innovation.\u00a0 The patent commons will be administered by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sunnyahn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}