Video: Firms Join To Offer Eco-Patent Commons

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and IBM are initiating an effort in partnership with Nokia, Pitney Bowes, and Sony have come together to help the environment, unleashing dozens of innovative, environmentally responsible patents to the public domain. The pledged portfolio, dubbed the "Eco-Patent Commons," is available on a dedicated, public Web site hosted by the WBCSD (http://www.wbcsd.org/web/epc). Availability of these patents will encourage researchers, entrepreneurs and companies of all sizes in any industry to create, apply, and further develop their consumer or industrial products, processes, and services in a way that will help to protect and respect the environment.