PIPRA
= Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture, sharing seed licenses, as in a patent pool, to help overcome the ag biotech anti-commons
URL = http://www.pipra.org/
Description
1.
"PIPRA supports agricultural innovation for both humanitarian and small-scale commercial purposes. We bring together intellectual property from over 40 universities, public agencies, and non-profit institutes and help make their technologies available to innovators around the world."
2.
Keith Aoki:
"A problem in the PGR context is that the genetic “information” at issue is far less codified and much more dynamic than in the software context. However, this may be partially addressable by creating an infrastructure for communication among genomic databases, farmers, plant breeders, gene banks, newsgroups, and public university institutions such as the Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture (PIPRA), located at the University of California at Davis." (http://ssrn.com/abstract=1390273)