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The latest edition of Genomics Law Report features a guest commentary on the roadblocks to knowledge sharing and scientific research, penned by Science Commons Counsel Thinh Nguyen. The report is a publication out of the law firm Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson.
In the commentary, “The Hidden Legal Barriers to Scientific Research”, Nguyen details some of the lesser discussed hurdles to scientific research, from materials transfer agreements to the legal implications surrounding the sharing of data and interoperability.
He writes:
“The increasing extent to which legal formalities, and thus lawyers, intermediate scientific sharing, not only between academia and industry but increasingly between academics themselves, represents a cultural sea-change with important consequences for how science is conducted in the future. The public and unrestricted …