These companies are showing good social responsibility and are to be congratulated.
Onésimo Alvarez-Moro
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Four of the world's biggest companies are expected to announce to day that they have put 31 patented environmental technologies into the public domain for anyone to use.
IBM Corp., Nokia, Sony and Pitney Bowes launched an "Eco-Patent Commons" designed to make Earth-friendly manufacturing and waste-reduction processes more widely available, following the idea that innovation occurs more quickly when new ideas and processes are open to the public for troubleshooting and improvement.
"This is an open source effort along the lines of the Creative Commons," said IBM assistant general counsel David Kappos, who is responsible for the company's intellectual property.
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