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I don't have any patents, and I've never received any money from a medical imaging company, and I am not seeking your vote.
There are no patents.
In terms of patents, there's no question that the East is ahead.
The problem with these patents is that the mechanisms are obscure and the patent system is dysfunctional, and as a result, most of these lawsuits end in settlements.
Patents are very difficult to overturn.
Now, my obsession ended up driving me to create full-size prototypes in my own backyard — (Laughter) — and actually spending my own personal savings on everything from tooling to patents and a variety of other costs, but in the end I ended up with this modular housing system that can react to any situation or disaster.
Tesla has over 700 patents to his name: radio, wireless telegraphy, remote control, robotics.
What he did was he looked at those companies that had an R&D center in USA and in India, and then he looked at a patent that was filed out of the U.S. and a similar patent filed out of the same company's subsidiary in India, so he's now comparing the patents of R&D centers in the U.S. with R&D centers in India of the same company to find out what is the quality of the patents filed out of the Indian centers and how do they compare with the quality of the patents filed out of the U.S. centers?
In fact, if you look at the number of patents filed over history, I think they are in the top or the top two or three companies in the world of all patents filed in the USA as a private company.
Now, back in the '80s, there were no software patents, and it was Xerox that pioneered the graphical user interface.
They also had taken out numerous patents on essential parts of the airplane.
That was common practice in the industry, and those who held patents on airplanes were defending them fiercely and suing competitors left and right.
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.
The patents on those drugs were held by a number of Western pharmaceutical companies that were not necessarily willing to make those patents available.
Luckily, those patents did not exist everywhere.
There were countries that did not recognize pharmaceutical product patents, such as India, and Indian pharmaceutical companies started to produce so-called generic versions, low-cost copies of antiretroviral medicines, and make them available in the developing world, and within a year the price had come down from 10,000 dollars per patient per year to 350 dollars per patient per year, and today that same triple pill cocktail is available for 60 dollars per patient per year, and of course that started to have an enormous effect on the number of people who could afford access to those medicines.
Today, all countries are obliged to provide patents for pharmaceuticals that last at least 20 years.
So you can imagine that if you are a generic company about to decide whether to invest in the development of this product, unless you know that the licenses to these patents are actually going to be available, you will probably choose to do something else.
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.
The Medicines Patent Pool then license those out to whoever needs access to those patents.
The airplane patent holders were not left a choice whether they'd license their patents or not.
It relies on the willingness of pharmaceutical companies to license their patents and make them available for others to use.
The company, Gilead, that holds the patents, has licensed the intellectual property to the Medicines Patent Pool.
So for now, they exist mostly in this realm of trade secrets and patents only universities and corporations have access to.
EM: Since our primary competitors are national governments, the enforceability of patents is questionable.(Laughter)
What I'm going to show you is how 156 people from 25 countries all over the five continents of this beautiful Earth, dropped their lives, dropped their patents, dropped their dogs, wives, kids, school, jobs, and congregated to come to Brazil for 18 months to actually get this done.
We need those new drugs badly, and we need incentives: discovery grants, extended patents, prizes, to lure other companies into making antibiotics again.
Here, the personal and professional connections of the women of Silicon Valley can be woven into arcs, same as the collaboration of inventors birthing patents across the globe can be mapped.
So Chris cut right to the chase, and he says, "Well, of all the issues you've been looking at, what are the top five?" "Well, there's genetic discrimination, and reproductive technologies, and biobanking, and ... oh, there's this really cool issue, functional MRI and using it for lie detection, and ... oh, and of course, there's gene patents."
"Gene patents?" "Yes, you know, patents on human genes."
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