Colleen Chien and Evan Hastings JD ’19 co-authored a guest post on the Patentlyo blog arguing for contextual patent disclosure for open innovation because of Covid-19.
“The USPTO’s recently-launched Patents 4 Partnerships platform, the US-based Open Covid Pledge, and Japan-based Open Covid-19 Declaration represent important efforts to provide contextual information about patent owner intents (to share and license technology) to the public. ”