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Innovators Beat The Climate Change Heat With Humanitarian Licensing And Patent Pools, Andrea Nocito
Innovators Beat The Climate Change Heat With Humanitarian Licensing And Patent Pools, Andrea Nocito
Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property
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Biotech Biofuels: How Patents May Save Biofuels And Create Empires, Adam Wolek
Biotech Biofuels: How Patents May Save Biofuels And Create Empires, Adam Wolek
Chicago-Kent Law Review
The United States' primary transportation energy sources are fossil fuels, namely, gasoline and diesel. These products have high environmental, security, and financial costs. A strong emphasis has been placed on biofuels, especially ethanol and biodiesel, to lessen reliance on fossil fuels. Historically, high production costs, lack of infrastructure, return on investment anxieties, and concerns about scaling-up production have slowed the development of these alternative technologies. Today, biotechnological solutions are lowering productions costs and making large scale production more economically feasible. Patents can lessen anxieties about investment as they can provide longer-term protection and market exclusivity for patented technologies. As biofuels …