Now patents are interesting.

You have 400 patents?

Their patents are worth billions.

Patents are very difficult to overturn.

These are called Me Too patents.

Maybe we have some patents now.

Copyrights covered media patents covered inventions.

We'll be filing patents for years.

Luckily, those patents did not exist everywhere.

Newstead owns our patents. We'd lose everything.

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,

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

As oil prices go up, energy patents go up.

He's a great scientist 400 patents. The world wants him

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.

Which is why companies tend to keep a very close eye... on those patents.

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

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

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.

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.

Today, all countries are obliged to provide patents for pharmaceuticals that last at least 20 years.

The airplane patent holders were not left a choice whether they'd license their patents or not.

And Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray filed patents for the telephone on the same day

And software patents are written in the broadest possible language to get the broadest possible protection.

I'll rip your style and add it to my long list of patents while you were busy digging ditches and burning bridges

And because legal defense is hundreds of thousands of dollars in copyright cases and millions in patents, their targets are usually highly motivated to settle out of court.

The company, Gilead, that holds the patents, has licensed the intellectual property to the Medicines Patent Pool.