More on Madey v. Duke....After losing in federal Circuit Court court last October, Duke University appealed to the Supreme Court, supported by amicus briefs from the American Council on Education, the Association of American Medical Colleges, and 29 American colleges and universities. The Supreme Court hasn't yet decided whether to grant cert (accept the case for review), but on April 7 it did order Theodore Olson, U.S. Solicitor General, to submit a brief in the case. (More.) Olson submitted his brief in May. It opposes Duke and supports the Circuit Court's ominous ruling that the "experimental use" doctrine in patent law (a defense against infringement) does not apply to scientific experiments at research universities. I haven't found Duke's brief, but here is the pro-Duke brief by the Association of American Medical Colleges, and the pro-Duke brief by Public Knowledge and the Consumer Project on Technology.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/18/2003 06:22:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
