Medical AI, software & IP
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Why Only a "Handful of Companies" Reaped Enormous Profits from mRNA Vaccines —— How Patent Strategy Decided Pharmaceutical Supremacy [Paid]
How did the mRNA vaccine oligopoly come about? An IP-perspective explanation covering dominant design, divisi…
Playing the piano pedal with your head — inside the bFaaaP Open Source Project
bFaaaP is an AI assistive pedal that achieves piano sustain from head motion instead of the foot. A friendly …
Part 1: The Big Picture and Five Questions
We present the big picture of medical AI web services that are increasingly being put into practical use in t…
Part 2: The Current State of Representative Services (Ambient Documentation, Triage, Pathology, and More)
An overview of representative examples in ambient clinical documentation, patient-facing agents, imaging tria…
Part 3: Market Size, Challenges, and Considerations for Web App Development
Market size and revenue models, challenges such as safety/liability/privacy, and key points for web developme…
Part 4: IP Strategy — Patents and Software Licensing (Pitfalls Such as AGPL)
Beyond patents, we organize a list of licenses such as MIT/Apache/GPL/AGPL and their constraints. The need fo…
Part 5: Conclusion — Answering the Questions Raised in Part 1
We summarize our answers to the five questions raised in Part 1 (clinical value, market, regulation, web deve…
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