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Scheme to ’share environmentally-friendly patents’

Sony has pledged a patent to recycle old mobile phones in electrical appliances such as digital cameras
Katherine Nightingale
17 January 2008
Source: SciDev.Net
Large corporations have joined forces in an ‘open innovation’ project to allow public access to patents with environmental benefits.
IBM, Nokia, Pitney Bowles and Sony, in partnership with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), [...]