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Name: Patent or Perish
ID: m14509
Language: English (en-us)
Summary: A brief overview of patent law and its controversies and uses in nanotechnology
Subject: Science and Technology, Humanities
Keywords: intellectual property, invention, nanotechnology, patents
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 2.0
Authors: Devon Fanfair (devon@rice.edu), Salil Desai (desaisal@rice.edu), Christopher Kelty (ckelty@rice.edu)
Copyright Holders: Devon Fanfair (devon@rice.edu), Salil Desai (desaisal@rice.edu), Christopher Kelty (ckelty@rice.edu)
Maintainers: Tish Stringer (tish@rice.edu), Devon Fanfair (devon@rice.edu), Salil Desai (desaisal@rice.edu), Christopher Kelty (ckelty@rice.edu)
Latest version: 1.1 (history)
First publication date: Jun 9, 2006 4:05 pm -0500
Last revision to module: May 7, 2007 2:01 pm -0500

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Version History

Version: 1.1 May 7, 2007 2:01 pm -0500 by Christopher Kelty
Changes: 
fixed notes and figures, cleaned up formatting.  removed Dana Hoffman (no response by email).

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American Medical Assocation (AMA) Manual of Style:

Fanfair D, Desai S, Kelty C. Patent or Perish [Connexions Web site]. May 7, 2007. Available at: http://cnx.org/content/m14509/1.1/.

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Fanfair, D., Desai, S., & Kelty, C. (2007, May 7). Patent or Perish. Retrieved from the Connexions Web site: http://cnx.org/content/m14509/1.1/

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Fanfair, Devon, Salil Desai, and Christopher Kelty. "Patent or Perish." Connexions. May 7, 2007. http://cnx.org/content/m14509/1.1/.

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Fanfair, D., Desai, S., & Kelty, C. 2007. Patent or Perish. Connexions, May 7, 2007. http://cnx.org/content/m14509/1.1/.

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