Summary: A long overdue appearance on the Pod by Kansas University law professor Andrew Torrance who teaches and conducts research in patent law, intellectual property, innovation, and so much more! Andrew leads us through a couple of fascinating topics on the bleeding edge of IP. First, he discusses the use of a page ranking-like model to value patents. Second, he introduces us into some governance and related models applied in the synthetic biology community to avoid the tragedy of the commons but without resorting to traditional IP protection.
