Invention

useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries” (U.S. Const. art. I, § 8). A patent provides the inventor with an exclusive right to “use, license or sell and invention,” (U.S. Const. art. I, § 8), as such the product, service, process or design becomes the personal property of the inventor(s). The Patent Act of 1793 redefined the subject of a patent that remains in effect today. The Act reads, “That when any person

     I think that we take for granted the things that we have today. Just look at all of the innovations in technology and quality of living over the last 100 years. Back in the year 1900, things went crazy. All sorts of new inventions were coming out all of the time, and people were becoming rich beyond their wildest dreams. In my opinion, the past 100 years have left us in a completely different world.      Back in the early 1900’s people were amazed

TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE PROTECTION UNDER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Innovations based on TK may benefit from patent, trademark, and geographical indication protection, or be protected as a trade secret or confidential information. However, traditional knowledge as such - knowledge that has ancient roots and is often oral - is not protected by conventional intellectual property systems. While the policy issues concerning TK are broad and diverse, the IP issues break down into two key themes: Defensive protection

In Malaysia, pharmaceutical inventions in the form of products or process can be protected as patents upon meeting the patentability requirement and do not fall under statutory exceptions for non-patentable subject matters. The requirements for patentability of pharmaceutical inventions are that the invention must be new, involves an inventive step and it is industrially applicable. According to Biotechnology In Malaysia (2008), granted patents in the healthcare field are showing an increasing trend

John Deere 's invention of the plow revolutionized farming, and the design has steadily improved over time. John Deere was a farmer in the western part of the US. He needed a replacement for the wood plows that kept breaking in the different soil. The wood plows were built and designed for farming in the eastern states. Ever since he made the invention and founded the company, it has been upgraded and rethought to extravagant levels. The biggest achievements of John Deere will be explained in this

There are some famous inventors that I think have changed America’s history because of their inventions. Eli Whitney inventing the cotton gin, Nikola Tesla inventing the first AC motor, and Elijah McCoy inventing the lubricator for steam engines. Nikola Tesla was originally from Croatia but then moved to the United States in 1884. He there created the first ever Air Conditioner motor in New York also where he met Thomas Edison his future rival. One day Nikola Tesla was walking somewhere with sand

International Patent: Everything You Need to Know An international patent, also referred to a PCT patent application, is a request that your invention be patented outside of the United States. It is important to note that there is really no such thing as an “international patent.” Rather, if you want to obtain patent protection in countries outside of the United States, you’ll file a PCT patent application. PCT, also referred to as Patent Cooperation Treaty, is an international patent treaty that

Many of the technological inventions have changed and advanced American’s culture. However the radio is one of the most remarkable inventions in the history. The radio used to be necessity in people's lives from 19th century to the early 20th century, before TV was invented. While new media options –TV, laptop, and mobile phone are invented and available now, the radio is seen as old-fashioned media device in today’s society. ` In the lecture, I learned that the radio—wireless telegraph, has such

The English Language Everyone has a different interpretation of the word, “invention”. However the word is simply defined as; a new device, method of process developed from study and experimentation. An invention is just a mental fabrication; it’s a falsehood (Dictionary.com 2013).1 Although in the essays, “Why I write” by Joan Didion, “Life in a new Language” by Eva Hoffman, and “Basmati Rice: An Essay about Words” by Audrey Thomas, each author has their own view on the English language, how

smaller companies but had an offer to buy out the product if they wanted. This was a good move by IBM due to the fact that this invited groups both small and large to experiment with the product. The computer might have many inventions to supplement it; the biggest is invention came in 1965. This was the beginning of the internet. At first the only the idea of sending information from one computer to another was very much desired by the world. The Russians accomplished this by sending a probe into