U.S. district courts are very important it's where a lot of our seminal litigation starts.

Patented to whom?

I think he's telling the truth. And i disagree.

No, we were investigating Ms. Hewes long before the Frobisher case.

The fuzziness of software patents boundaries has turned the smartphone industry into one giant turf war.

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The Medicines Patent Pool is a voluntary mechanism.

And this is how it works

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

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

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That is something that the Medicines Patent Pool cannot do.

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.

We could just say, oh, you know what?

This has huge implications.

You have 400 patents?

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

Where is the Tokyo patent office?

In London, for instance, where the BAE got away with a huge corruption case, which the Serious Fraud Office tried to prosecute, 100 million British pounds, every year for ten years, to one particular official of one particular friendly country, who then bought for 44 billion pounds of military equipment.

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

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

You're wrong.

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Patented clockwork mechanical man.

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.

His son will soon be 14 years old.

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

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.

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?

Wrong.

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

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.

This has nothing to do with science.

Well, what did we do?

I told my lawyers repeatedly that I didn't...this seemed fishy, I didn't like this, I didn't want immunity,