Conflict over property rights could delay scientific progress on COVID-19, due to international vaccine developers refusing to share their resources, an expert has said. Vaccines and other COVID-19 technologies have been shared via the World Health Organization's Covid-19 Technology Access ...

Academics have voiced concerns that Turnitin’s proposal to buy competitor Ouriginal would give the company a near monopoly of the anti-plagiarism market, reducing diversity and giving the company a “treasure trove of data”.  Ouriginial is a Stockholm-based company that formed ...

Changes to Australian intellectual property laws will help clear up legal ambiguities for researchers working in areas involving already patented discoveries, says the National Health and Medical Research Council. The Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Raising the Bar) Bill 2012 was ...