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

I don't care whether it's something only we could do.

I then received my second patent and this is a big one.

And this is how it works Patent holders, inventors that develop new medicines patent those inventions, but make those patents available to the Medicines Patent Pool. The Medicines Patent Pool then license those out to whoever needs access to those patents.

Patents are very difficult to overturn.

They go no patent on it!

This shows you a patent landscape.

The Medicines Patent Pool is a voluntary mechanism.

I could sure take out a patent for this one.

Here you see a patent for an arm in 1912.

Georgia, love is for the very young.

Luckily, those patents did not exist everywhere.

Love is for the very young. Love is for the birds!

Behold, patent infringement via mobile device defined as a computer which is not stationary.

They were not the only ones.

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

An international monopoly.

It's an alarm. The patent's pending.

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

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

Expert Meeting on Trade Facilitation as an Engine for Development

(b) Rights conferred by patent and its infringement

The Executive Board shall draw on the expertise necessary to perform its functions, including from the UNFCCC roster of experts.

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

If I obtain the patent for my research we are gonna make money

We strongly encourage and look forward to the participation of experts, in particular from the United States of America.

A monopoly of some kind, isn't it?

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

I'm only exaggerating a little bit. It's a broad patent.

And it's not just kids, it's adults too.

report of the expert meeting on trade facilitation as an engine for development

My patent is basic. 99,000 is a lot of money.

No, and he's a specialist, too. Henry had the best.

And but he knew patent law, and that we couldn't patent it, because you couldn't. No use for it.

Prizes, Not Patents

(i) Protection by the patents system

Royalties depended on patent strength, industry practices, value added and other factors.

Harvard College v. Canada (Commissioner of Patents), 4 S.C.R. 45.

Here's how many people it takes to produce a single U.S. patent.

They pay royalties over the sales to the patent holders, so they are remunerated for sharing their intellectual property.

It was important, however, not to focus on some kinds of rights while neglecting others.

U. S. Patent Database

International Federation of Patent Agents

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

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