Patent
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It's the small parts of it that are, and it's in these small details where we can clearly see
patent
law contradicting its intent: to promote the progress of useful arts.
It's a 28-page software patent, but I will summarize what it covers.
It's a broad
patent.
Starting in 2005, and this is how this open government work in the U.S. really got started, I was teaching a
patent
law class to my students and explaining to them how a single person in the bureaucracy has the power to make a decision about which
patent
application becomes the next patent, and therefore monopolizes for 20 years the rights over an entire field of inventive activity.
We said, we can make a website, we can make an expert network, a social network, that would connect the network to the institution to allow scientists and technologists to get better information to the
patent
office to aid in making those decisions.
We piloted the work in the U.S. and the U.K. and Japan and Australia, and now I'm pleased to report that the United States
Patent
Office will be rolling out universal, complete, and total openness, so that all
patent
applications will now be open for citizen participation, beginning this year.
Fast forward four years later, after having written a 40-page business plan on the cell phone, having written my
patent
on the cell phone, I'm the youngest patent-holder in the country, and — ("No more bathing!")
So after that, what I did, usually if anyone got a
patent
or an invention, immediately you want to make, convert into this.
The U.S. government decided to take action, and forced those
patent
holders to make their patents available to share with others to enable the production of airplanes.
When you have a patent, you can exclude anyone else from making, from producing or making low-cost versions, for example, available of those medications.
Clearly this led to
patent
wars breaking out all over the globe.
Here you see the
patent
practices before the World Trade Organization's rules, before '95, before antiretroviral drugs.
This shows you a
patent
landscape.
So surely if a
patent
pool could be established to ramp up the production of military airplanes, we should be able to do something similar to tackle the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
And this is how it works:
Patent
holders, inventors that develop new medicines
patent
those inventions, but make those patents available to the Medicines
Patent
Pool.
They pay royalties over the sales to the
patent
holders, so they are remunerated for sharing their intellectual property.
There is one key difference with the airplane
patent
pool.
The airplane
patent
holders were not left a choice whether they'd license their patents or not.
We count on those companies that understand that it is in the interest, not only in the interest of the global good, but also in their own interest, to move from conflict to collaboration, and through the Medicines
Patent
Pool they can make that happen.
You didn't
patent
because you think it's more dangerous to
patent
than not to
patent.
She and her adviser have a
patent
on a second use of Viagra for diabetes patients.
It just happens to be that Mother Nature holds the patent, and we don't really feel comfortable with it.
Less than a mile from here in this direction, in 1853 a Scotsman filed his very first
patent
on the needle and syringe.
This is the
patent.
He was one of America's most prolific inventors, though he famously never filed a patent, because he thought that all human knowledge should be freely available.
Well, if you're coming up on a street, the next right's probably the one after, and there are lots of issues, and the student did a wonderful thesis, and the MIT
patent
office said "Don't
patent
it.
Don't
patent
it."
She wears red
patent
shoes, and her mantra is that one scarf is nice but two is better.
We have some
patent
medicines, Canopic jars for your organs, communist soap that says, "This is your soap for the year."
They got a
patent
in 1965 for what they call, "a device to assist women in giving birth."
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