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Tag Archives: Sustainability
BIO’s take on the CBD Nagoya Protocol
After several years of negotiations, the 10th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) successfully adopted the Nagoya Protocol. The Protocol provides benefits to the biotechnology industry by creating a legal framework to regulate access to genetic resources and provide fair and equitable sharing of benefits. In addition, the Protocol does not apply retroactively or hinder regulation or a country’s intellectual property systems. Assuming nations implement the Protocol appropriately, we can Read More >
Vilsack Extols the Value of Biotech Crops
As part of Forbes Video Network’s “Thought Leaders” series, U.S. Agricultural Secretary Tom Vilsack talks about the benefits of agricultural biotechnology: “We probably have not done a very good job of explaining to people the benefits of GMOs, not just simply the fact that they can produce more crops, but that they can do so with less reliance on natural resources, less damage to natural resources and less reliance on chemicals and pesticides.” View the Read More >
USPTO Requesting Comments on Humanitarian Technologies
In case you missed it, on September 20 the United States Patent Office issued a request for comments on incentivizing humanitarian technologies and licensing through the intellectual property system. The USPTO is trying to incentivize humanitarian technologies by creating a “fast-track ex parte reexamination voucher pilot program.” The program will give priority to humanitarian technology patents shortening the review process to six months. The USPTO also hopes the program will reduce costs for humanitarian technology Read More >
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Tags: Global Health, global health, Green Technology, Humanitarian Aid, humanitarian technologies, patent, patent examination, Patent Office, Patent Reform, patents, Sustainability, United States Patent and Trademark Office, United States Patent Office, USPTO
Tags: Global Health, global health, Green Technology, Humanitarian Aid, humanitarian technologies, patent, patent examination, Patent Office, Patent Reform, patents, Sustainability, United States Patent and Trademark Office, United States Patent Office, USPTO
New Study Shows Benefits of Bt Corn to Neighboring Farmers
Agricultural scientists have published a study in the journal Science providing evidence that corn that has been genetically engineered to produce insect-killing proteins isolated from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) provides significant economic benefits even to neighboring farmers who grow non-transgenic varieties of corn. “This study provides important information about the benefits of biotechnology by directly examining how area-wide suppression of corn borers using Bt corn can improve yield and grain quality even of Read More >
New Salmon Can Address a Myriad Of Problems
By Elliot Entis, co-founder of AquaBounty Technologies (From The Hill, Friday, October 8, 2010) Natural fish stocks have been so depleted in the past few decades that more than half of the salmon we consume here in the United States comes to us from “fish farming,” 97 percent of which is imported. That’s because we consume highly-desirable fish like salmon at least twice as fast as it can reproduce in the wild. In 1993, AquaBounty, Read More >
