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Harvard set to license 50-plus nanotech patents

Cambridge start-up will work with 3M, Merck, Pentagon

Harvard's George Whitesides cofounded Nano-Terra, which will use Harvard patents to commercialize nanotechnology. Harvard's George Whitesides cofounded Nano-Terra, which will use Harvard patents to commercialize nanotechnology. (DAVID KAMERMAN/GLOBE STAFF/FILE 2005)
By Robert Weisman
Globe Staff / June 4, 2007

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Harvard University, in one of its largest technology transfer deals ever, is set to disclose today that it has licensed a portfolio of more than 50 nanotechnology patents to a Cambridge start-up that is working with manufacturers and the Pentagon to commercialize the technology. (Full article: 593 words)

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