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GX makes use a number of strategies for making technologies available for research and commercial applications:
 
GX makes use a number of strategies for making technologies available for research and commercial applications:
  
* a research non-assertion: scientists and researchers working in universities and other non-profit research institutions can take advantage of the ''Research Non-Assertion'' to carry out academic non-commercial research
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* a research non-assertion: scientists and researchers working in universities and other non-profit research institutions can take advantage of the ''Research Non-Assertion'' to carry out academic non-commercial research;
  
* a standard model patent license: a simple, streamlined, non-exclusive patent license that can be used to make public offers to license patents
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* a standard model patent license: a simple, streamlined, non-exclusive patent license that can be used to make public offers to license patents;
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* know-how and technical disclosures that detail best practices and innovations that are unpatented.

Latest revision as of 21:02, 4 February 2010

GX is an abbreviation for GreenXchange, a project that was originally proposed a collaboration between Nike and Creative Commons to share widely technologies that promote sustainability. The GX project presented at Davos in January 2010.

GX makes use a number of strategies for making technologies available for research and commercial applications:

  • a research non-assertion: scientists and researchers working in universities and other non-profit research institutions can take advantage of the Research Non-Assertion to carry out academic non-commercial research;
  • a standard model patent license: a simple, streamlined, non-exclusive patent license that can be used to make public offers to license patents;
  • know-how and technical disclosures that detail best practices and innovations that are unpatented.