Wrong.

Patented to whom?

To specific pages and specific words on those pages.

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The Medicines Patent Pool is a voluntary mechanism.

And this is how it works

We know now that there must be a single purpose, a single norm, a single approach, a single entity of people, a single virtue, a single morality, a single frame of reference, a single philosophy of government.

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.

U. S. Patent Database

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

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.

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?

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

Now what did I learn from this case? Well, three things.

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.

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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?

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

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

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.

First we need to check in with what it means.

This has nothing to do with science.

Well, what did we do?

Golly, I'm just totally losing it.

The patent cost 4,000.