Knowledge Ecology Studies, Vol 1 (2007),  August 13, 2007 ^{(This is date added - Actual publication date not specified)}
Author: Peter Drahos

Patent systems in their present form represent unhealthy concentrations of power and dominance in which networks of big businesses, patent attorneys and patent offices cooperate to produce an insider governance of the system.
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One of the aims for Patent Lens is to build a level of transparency into the system that will enable communities of innovators around the world to develop topographies of patented areas of technology that will help those communities make decisions about how to invest their limited resources.

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