Derek Cousins: Bbc's Dragons Den

Between 1790 and 1860, the Patent and Trademark Office of the federal government issued just 36,000 patents- licenses that give an inventor the exclusive rights to make, use or sell an invention for a set period of time

To balance these competing interests, Harvard agreed to receive an equity stake in the company, and Syndexa would pay Harvard a small up-front fee to license the patents that Hotamisligil had developed. For Syndexa one of the key parts of negotiations was centered on the research that the start-up intended to fund in Hotamisligil’s lab at Harvard. Harvard had major concerns with how the Syndexa-sponsored research will be separated from the other funds (government- or foundation-funded projects) that Hotamisligil receives. Harvard cannot funnel federally funded inventions to companies, however at the same time Syndexa was looking for assurance that they would have first crack at intellectual property for a technology that they funded. Another major issue extending negotiations was the conditions under which Syndexa would make royalty payments to Harvard for products that were not covered under Harvard patents, but discovered using Harvard technologies. To ensure that Harvard would receive a reasonable return on the patents it was licensing, Syndexa agreed to pay a small royalty rate if they developed a new therapeutic cure for diabetes using its Harvard license. Both parties agreed to the concept of an ‘identified product’, essentially a drug discovered through the use of patents, targets and assays being licensed from Harvard. Negotiations over what constituted an ‘identified product’ continued through the rest

After two years of experimenting and helping himself to the manuscript and studies of scholars, he was finally to create the electric light bulb. He knew society would profit from this invention but was unsure of how to share this with society since being in the tunnel was breaking the rules. His best bet, according to him, was to show his idea to the scholars. While working on his

Morgan often said “If it's in a book, you can do it, if it's not, then use your imagination” meaning that don’t give up, if you find it in a book, you can make it happen, if it's not, then make your own steps on how to make it happen. If Garrett never went by this quote, fires would be more deadly than they are now and car crashes would happen more often than they are now. Morgan made the first “illuminated traffic lights” to direct traffic. How Morgan thought of this was when he witnessed a horrible car crash leaving a poor girl in critical condition. With his Morgan’s don't stop attitude and creativity, Morgan found a solution to car accidents. To this day forward, we still use them today. Finally, Garrett created the “Gas Mask”. Back then, fires were deadly due to the toxic gasses and of course the flames. Morgan’s gas mask was popular, but not well known. Then, Morgan had the chance to show that his invention truly worked. When a mining tunnel blew up, the tunnel as filled with toxic gasses, many were either passes out or they had died. Morgan got a call from the police officers at the scene at 3 O’clock in the morning, explaining what had happened. Morgan grabbed as many gas masks as possible and flew down to the scene. Once he got there, 3 volunteers, volunteer to put on the gas masks, including Garrett. After 15 minutes the volunteers went down, they came up the

gotten to the patent before them allowing for them to create a monopoly. The Capitalists if the

Also to make sure credit was rightfully awarded to them. With that came the birth of the first patent. The invention of the first patent has brought up many different questions like where does one go to get a patent, who created it, how is one obtained, and what rights do they provide?

Cousins is a force on the offensive end of the floor; very seldom do opposing teams contain him at that end of the floor. The scariest thing about Cousins’ game is

Although Dr. Pruchansky gave Blake and Crockett a good faith agreement to license his patents for the genetically altered fish,

individuals who understand finance, and then you have a Board of Directors who rejected it. Is this

Crichton argues that because a company hold the patent on a gene they can charge whatever they want for test (441). He also explains how competitors aren't allowed to make a cheaper test because the patent holder can block them. Crichton even goes into how a person with the gene that is patented can't donate their tissue for research without permission (441). Calfee agrees to an extent. “One is that when a gene patent gives the seller a monopoly over a product, that product can be sold at monopoly prices, which can be higher than the competitive price” (444). But unlike Crichton, Calfee believes that pricing power is a tool to foster new innovation.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office granted the exclusive right to the Knoll brothers to profit from their invention – Photoshop, which Adobe acquired through a licensing deal. While rewarding a person for his invention is good to promote innovation, rule utilitarians would disagree in grating the patent to them because it implicates a social cost that far outweighs the benefits of that one software and the people involved in making it. The inelastic nature of the patent gives tremendous amounts of leverage to Photoshop as it is the undisputed market leader of photo editing programs because it has features that its competitors aren’t allowed to offer due to the patent.

The patenting race takes advantage of the same computer technology that made the sequencing possible. Companies seeking patents have been using automated DNA-sequencing machines to identify genes easily and cheaply. At the time when they file for the patents,

The company fortunes had grown and therefore buying out a partner wouldn’t be a cheap affair. Peterson therefore; started scanning through his finances and checking out his financial muscles to see whether he could afford to buy out Scott from the company. Financing such an endeavor would need a lot of financial backing since none of the two had the sole capacity to accomplish it alone. Therefore, sources of finances to use would come from financial institutions such as banks using their personal assets as collaterals. Scott had a brother in-law who would be able and willing to help him finance to buying out of Peterson when it got to that point.

C. Highly specified product: Since the patent is not commercialized and targeted towards the individual, there might not be a market at all for the patent. It could be that if RhoMed does not exercise the option to buy the patent back or defaults on its payments and Aberlyn can’t sell the patent in the market, it would essentially be stuck with the patent, an asset that has no value. We calculated the NPV in this scenario and concluded that Aberlyn would essentially lose nearly its entire investment.

In 1999, they issued first patents to prevent the copy of its products and began the production to supply