Doctoral Candidate, Indian Law Institute, Delhi, India
Research Fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property, Tokyo, Japan
Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property & Competition Law, Munich, Germany
LL.M., The George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
PG.Dip. (Cyber Laws), Indian Law Institute, Delhi, India
LL.B. (Hons.), GGS Indraprastha University, Delhi, India
Online published on 17 November, 2012.
Open source software represents a paradigm shift in the field of software development. It is a community based development model that invites programmers globally, to freely copy, share, and modify the software. Such a development infrastructure arguably assists in efficiently obtaining a more robust software at minimal cost. Given the success in the field of software, attempts have been made to apply the open source philosophy to the field of medicine as well. The contours of an open source development model, when adapted to the field of medicine may acquire a different hue given the uniqueness of each field, and therefore requires considered analysis.
Open Source, Open Science, Open Innovation, Software, Bioinformatics, Genomics, Genetic engineering, Drug Discovery, Intellectual Property, License
