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.

See if we can track down the owner for consent.

Depends who owned it.

Specifies the actions that the owner is allowed to do.

Allow the unmounting of shares that are owned by other users

Do you or do you not possess a specialized weapon?

The patent cost 4,000.

Over here, you've got the old, traditional corporate model special people, special places patent it, push it down the pipeline to largely waiting, passive consumers.

I had a Mac in hand when I went to MlT.

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

Only users of a certain group are allowed to share folders

So what India did is no longer possible.

Yeah, he's got a place in the old McMillan building on King West.

And in discovery phase, we asked the patent troll to please provide screenshots of Fark where the infringement of their patent was actually occurring.

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And he explained, in a very generous way, the spirit that brought all these different people to the Institute for Advanced Study in the '40s to do this project, and make it freely available with no patents, no restrictions, no intellectual property disputes to the rest of the world.

We think we have solved the mystery of creation.

You have 400 patents?

Patented to whom?

I own you!

Instead of famine, hidden until it is too late, we detect it, and we respond.

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.

I'm not a radiologist.

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

You're wrong.

The exact location of the alarm.

Because they're exclusive. And fun, and they lead to a better life.

Ice nucleation for Weather Modification .

So I stick them all inside of that.

You don't! You have no choice.

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

L.A. leads the United States in the vacant lots that the city actually owns.

But the patent for underwater flight

And this is how it works

You need also state ownership, especially of land assets, in order to build and roll out infrastructures very quickly.

It really is Microsoft's Office. It's Adobe's Photoshop.

Your company.

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.

I own an island off the coast of Costa Rica.

U. S. Patent Database

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,

So how can you be decent and ethical in a competitive world?

I have an interest in it.

Well, what did we do?

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