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Boston University and the University of Warwick are organizing a conference titled “Socially Responsible Licensing: Achieving Social Equity through Voluntary Licensing” to be held at the University of Warwick’s Conference Center on November 19th and 20th, 2011. The conference will examine how the needs of the developing world for access to innovation can be reconciled with the global intellectual property system, which primarily operates through patent-based monopolies and the resultant high prices. The conference will look at policy issues, their application to healthcare, agriculture and cleantech and will look at specific case studies. More details can be found at |