Patented to whom?

And this is how it works

U. S. Patent Database

That is something that the Medicines Patent Pool cannot do.

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The Medicines Patent Pool is a voluntary mechanism.

And Chester Carlson, the inventor, was a patent attorney.

Where is the Tokyo patent office?

The end of 2009 I think you get the point you'll have a patent worth 1,000.

You're wrong.

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Patented clockwork mechanical man.

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Patent holders, inventors that develop new medicines patent those inventions, but make those patents available to the Medicines Patent Pool.

And let's say that if we just did it from a cash point of view, let's say we had to buy a patent in order to make our widgets.

We could just say, oh, you know what?

You haven't patented this stuff. It's really interesting to me.

This has huge implications.

You have 400 patents?

A patent is a blueprint for how to make an invention.

And then our snapshot, or our balance sheet at the end of 2007, will have on its assets a patent that's now worth 3,000.

His son will soon be 14 years old.

We had to buy a patent from some brilliant inventor someplace.

I'm not a radiologist.

KF So he's pretty frank about it not being new.

That is all there is to it. Apple has patented this.

I brought along the patents, the specifications for some of these works, because I've had my working methods patented at the Eidgenössische Amt für Geistiges Eigentum in Bern, Switzerland.

You've invented something new. Some hardware, or algorithm, or software, etc.

Second, the practice of patent holding companies have changed.

life of the patent might be four years.

And this is what I want to talk to you about today.

material object, which covers pretty much anything.

Now, can someone own this idea?

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,

A patent right is an important property.

Well I don't want to patent this because someone is going to read the patent.

Wrong.

This has nothing to do with science.

We think we have solved the mystery of creation.

Well, what did we do?

Copyrights covered media patents covered inventions.

You can do multi fingered gestures on it, and boy have we patented it.

Now this is the point in the Talk where I'm supposed to come up with some kind of a solution for the patent system.

The Medicines Patent Pool then license those out to whoever needs access to those patents.

But the theme of this session, of course, is invention.