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Patent Lens New Features

Patent search interface in Chinese (中文), English, Russian (Русский), and French.

Full text of PCT applications now searchable in Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Spanish.
Full text of EPO patents now searchable in English, French and German.
Search for lapsed, abandoned or expired US Patents.
Visualize Patent Families with new graphical trees as PDFs.
Patent Landscapes on Influenza Genes, Rice Genome and Adjuvants now online.
Protein & DNA Sequence searching of over 80 million sequences from worldwide patent collections.

Selected Media

Cambia is named to the list of World's Top 100 NGOs by The Global Journal

The Global Journal, USA
January 12, 2012
From the hundreds of thousands of Non-governmental organizations in the world, the Global Journal has selected the Top 100 based on impact, innovation, transparency, accountability and efficiency.

Q&A with Richard Jefferson - Stanford Social Innovation Review

Stanford Social Innovation Review, USA
February 14, 2011
Richard Jefferson believes that biotechnology can be used to benefit the poor and disenfranchised, but only if the R&D process is democratized so that everyone has access to critical scientific tools and technologies.

USPTO makes US Patent Data Publicly available

Open letter to Mr David Kappos, Director of USPTO, Australia
November 1, 2010

Richard Jefferson is interviewed by NewsClick, India

Newsclick (India), India
May 8, 2010
GM Foods and Bt Brinjal: Interview with Prof. Richard Jefferson, Cambia

Nature Biotechnology editorial, May 2006 (info)

The ability to interpret and filter intellectual property (IP) has never been more important...CAMBIA's Patent Lens is a giant leap in the right direction"

Red Herring Cover-story and editorial, April 17, 2006 (info)

Patent transparency is the lifeblood of the new open source" -Influential IT mag features CAMBIA's role in changing the face of life sciences innovation. (info)

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