Yes, Commissioner. Good.

It wasn't me, commissioner!

Commissioner Pini, my husband.

I'm not a charity commissioner.

Middle of a drought, and the water commissioner drowns.

You'll probably wind up being Commissioner.

Lieutenant, the Commissioner wants to see you.

The Commissioner told me lay off, remember?

Now patents are interesting.

I got the Commissioner to reopen your case.

Patents are very difficult to overturn.

These are called Me Too patents.

Maybe we have some patents now.

Copyrights covered media patents covered inventions.

Luckily, those patents did not exist everywhere.

GDP of the city crime and patents all on one graph.

The patents on those drugs were held by a number of Western pharmaceutical companies that were not necessarily willing to make those patents available.

In terms of patents, there's no question that the East is ahead.

It could be patents, it could be licenses.

There are no patents. Anyone can make it.

What we're seeing is a complete corruption of the idea of patents and copyright.

They also had taken out numerous patents on essential parts of the airplane.

In fact, if you look at the number of patents filed over history,

The electoral commissioner declared, with the consent of the parties, to run an unprecedented second re run.

When the Commissioner of Police comes on TV to talk about crime, he isn't speaking about corruption.

Finally patents. So what's protectable are non obvious inventions.

As oil prices go up, energy patents go up.

But a murderer, that's different. All right, I値l call the commissioner.

Just before going to lunch with the mayor, we went to the harbor commissioner.

And he was working on gyroscopes he has a number of patents for that kind of thing.

Since our primary competitors are national governments, the enforceability of patents is questionable.(Laughter) (Applause)

It will safeguard research investments and development of products, e.g. medical patents or pharmaceutical products.

All of our patents, our entire approach to patents and invention, is based on the idea that the inventor knows what the invention is for we can say what it's for.

In the United States the introduction of copyrights and patents was intended to address this imbalance.

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

Maybe those are trademarks or patents or, who knows what they are.

And while I don't have any patents that I'm aware of, you will be meeting a few of my inventions today.

Software patents are more like a loose description of what something would be like if it was actually invented.

Tesla has over 700 patents to his name radio, wireless telegraphy, remote control, robotics.

It relies on the willingness of pharmaceutical companies to license their patents and make them available for others to use.

Patents on life violate this higher laws and that is why we must disobey them.

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

The belief in intellectual property has grown so dominant it's pushed the original intent of copyrights and patents out of the public consciousness.

So for now, they exist mostly in this realm of trade secrets and patents only universities and corporations have access to.

And more than three quarters of research goes into Me Too patents, which means that the money the pharmaceutical industry gets through the monopoly that we give them with their patents is used not to find new cures, but to develop further monopolies.