8.6: Competititve Modes

Foster competitive modes of innovation.

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Agencies can also play a role in fostering competitive modes of innovation. Federal agencies may in various forms introduce incentives for the formation of patent pools, by increasing the scoring of a grant proposal that lays out a plan for patented discoveries to be part of an existing patent pool, or require from all grantees of specified grant-purses to agree to patent discoveries and assign them to a patent pool. The joint ownership of a patent portfolio should address several concerns with the current regime. First, legal analysts have feared that patenting research tools may reduce the collective ability to innovate as scientists make regular use of tools developed by their peers. Second, licensing contracts must be negotiated in the best interest of all the pool's partners, increasing the likelihood that patents will be used to create competitive markets of innovation rather than strengthening monopolies.

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• Federal Aenciies

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