Fame, Fortune, and Exploitation: The Fascinating History of Patents and Patent Trolls
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Transcript of Fame, Fortune, and Exploitation: The Fascinating History of Patents and Patent Trolls
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Welcome to
Fame, Fortune, and Exploitation: The History of Patents and
Patent Trolls
B.S.E.E., MIT J.D., University of Chicago
Licensed to practice law in California, Nevada, Colorado, & South DakotaAdmitted to practice before U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
Of Counsel Holland & Hart LLP 5441 Kietzke Lane Reno NV 89511 775-327-3010 [email protected]
Herbert R. (Dick) Schulze
Inventions – protected by patents
Works of Authorship – protected by copyright
Trademarks – protected by the law of unfair competition
Trade Secrets – protected by not telling, and by Federal and state statutes
Four Kinds of Intellectual Property
Better term is “non-practicing entity”
An entity that acquires patents and then licenses them
Manufactures no products and creates no jobs (except for its attorneys)
Patent Troll
December 26,1882Williams
U.S. Patent 269,766
What is a patent?
A limited monopoly granted by the U.S. Government
“Section 8 … Congress shall have Power …
8: To promote the Progress of … Useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to … Inventors the exclusive Right to their … Discoveries;
What can a patent cover?
Section 101 of the Patent Act: Article of manufacture, Machine, Composition of matter, Process, or Improvement thereof
U.S. Supreme Court:Anything under the sun that is made by man
What does a patent give?
The right to exclude others from:
Making, Using, Selling, Offering for sale, or Importinga patented product
Practicing, or Importing a product made bya patented process
First U.S. PatentJuly 31, 1790
Issued when I was bornU.S. Patent 2,395,178Feb 19, 1946Irving Fiori
Issued last weekU.S. Patent 9,583,932Feb 28, 2017Gerd Zuber (Ford Motor Co.)
Samuel MorsePatent No. 1647June 20, 1840
Claim 8 of Morse’s Patent
The use of the motive power of the electric current,which I call electromagnetism,for printing intelligible characters at a distance,being a new application of that powerof which I claim to be the discoverer.
Paraphrased:
Using electric current to print characters at a distance.
U.S. Patent 5,983,411DemoretNovember 16, 1999
Quick Quiz
Famous Patented Processes
Charles Goodyear Method of making rubber 1844
Henry Bessemer Method of making steel 1856
Charles Birdseye Method of packaging frozen food 1930
Louis Pasteur Method of ----- ? ----- 1873
The ProblemHow to send more than one telegram at a time over a single pair of wires?
Three Inventors
Philipp Reis’s “Telephone”
Bell’s PatentU.S. Patent 174,465March 7, 1876
Claim 5 of Bell’s patent
The method of; and apparatus for, transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically, as herein described, by causing electrical undulations, similar in form to the vibrations of the air accompanying the said vocal or other sound, substantially as set forth.
Paraphrased:
Transmitting sounds telegraphically, as described, by causing electrical undulations.
Emile Berliner’s MicrophoneU.S. Patent 463,569November 17, 1891
Thomas Edison
Thomas EdisonU.S. Patent 223,898January 27, 1880
George Westinghouse
Scan-to-email patentU.S. Patent 8,488,173July 16, 2013Laurence C. Klein
MPHJ v. RicohNo. 2016-1243Federal CircuitFebruary 13, 2017
Quick Quiz
Famous Patented Machines
William Burroughs Adding machine 1892
Walter Hunt Safety pin 1849
Joseph Glidden Barbed wire 1874
Chester Carlson ----- ? ----- 1940
Chester Carlson
U.S. Patent 4,235,472R. Sparks & G. SpectorNovember 25, 1980
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