Patented clockwork mechanical man.

It isn't only the number of drugs that are patented.

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

So it's not multi touch as a whole that's patented.

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

At least they patented something which, you know, could do useful things.

You've probably heard of this drug, made by Hoffmann La Roche, patented drug.

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

Examples are new technology that haven't been previously patented or applied for, and you have to be first.

What if they had patented pop up menus, scrollbars, the desktop with icons that look like folders and sheets of paper?

Now it may seem kind of strange that such a thing can actually be patented, but it does happen all the time.

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.

We can disobey them creatively, we can disobey them by saving and exchanging the seeds, that have either been patented by a giant corporation and five giant corporation are controlling already 75 of the world's commercial seed supply .

And at the end of 2010, probably because the patent is now expired and anyone can go out and produce whatever that invention that was patented without having the patent, we then say that the patent is worthless.

I was working on a very interesting technology at MlT, but it was a very long term view of how to develop technology, and it was going to be a very expensive technology, and also it would be patented.

He was upset by the low quality and high cost of existing patent reproductions, and so he started to develop a system of dry photocopying, which he patented in the late 1930s and which became the first dry photocopier that was commercially practical in 1960.

I dress up pretty, thank you, my wife, I love you for getting a good suit my passionate borough president and a guy named George Irwin from Green Living Technologies who helped me with my class and helped me get involved with this patented technology.

And so DNA didn't become a useful molecule, and the lawyers didn't enter into the equation until 1973, 20 years later, when Boyer and Cohen in San Francisco and Stanford came up with their method of recombinant DNA, and Stanford patented it and made a lot of money.

You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could. Before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunch box, now you're selling it.

This is what you see today, and this is in developing countries, so what that means is, unless we do something deliberate and unless we do something now, we will very soon be faced with another drug price crisis, because new drugs are developed, new drugs go to market, but these medicines are patented in a much wider range of countries.