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our speaker stephen parker

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is a managing partner of the wpnd law

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offices in washington d.c

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he works a lot with patent law

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and with regard to medical devices and

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he's also been engaged in remote viewing

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experiments with the university of

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virginia

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he's studying obes and other mental

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states for over 20 years in today's talk

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sponsored by john valentino

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is the patent hurdles faced by companies

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seeking to protect inventions in

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emerging and or not widely accepted

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sciences

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thank you very much

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so now that we start talking about

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winning lotteries and making money then

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i think i would like to talk about

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patents and intellectual property i

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think it's good for people uh doing

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research to realize that there are

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sometimes practical things you can do

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and to have a better understanding that

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maybe you need to try to

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focus on the business side and try to

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protect your inventions

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mostly i'm focusing on patents

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because they tend to be the most

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important uh

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type of intellectual property for

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inventions and technology development

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and some of my

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captions are meant to be silly a little

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bit

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okay

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physical property things you know

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bicycles or whatever

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everyone knows when you have it it's

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your bicycle it's in your in your garage

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if you don't do

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certain things take certain acts

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something that you think is your

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invention

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follow certain legal principles it just

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won't exist so it's very important to

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understand certain basic things like you

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could work for a company

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develop some wonderful thing and come

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out and tell everybody about it

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a year later you have nothing you've

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so i think that's a very important thing

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to understand

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at least the basics of of uh what you're

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dealing with

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this this basically lists uh sort of the

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basic types of intellectual property um

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patents as i mentioned and that gives

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you the right to exclude that's like a

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word that i think most of people here

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don't like

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exclude others how could i do that

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for making using and selling an

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invention

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for 20 years

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trademarks i think people understand

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protect names of companies and stuff

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but usually your company is not

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so much based on the name unless you're

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selling a soda pop or something like

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that it's all on marketing

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copyrights i think a lot of you

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understand copyrights

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doing a lot of publications and things

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like that

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um but they generally are not going to

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be the type thing that's going to

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protect a business because they're

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they're cut they're protecting someone

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preventing someone from actually

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accessing and copying some article or

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some creative work

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trade secrets i think actually is an

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important area for for people to focus

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especially in technologies that take a

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long time to develop you're not sure

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what technology might come out of it

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you want to become known in the in the

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market and give talks and things like

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this but sometimes you have to balance

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uh maintaining trade secrets if you see

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a business

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side to something

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and i always put in contracts um

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a lot of intellectual property is

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protected by contracts you have

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developers you have people filming

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things for you

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recording doing programming if you don't

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do the correct contracts to kind of set

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up your your foundation you can run into

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trouble and i just wanted to give you

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guys a general idea of uh the types of

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intellectual property there are

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now i'm going into some of the hurdles

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faced by people and trying to patent

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things in these kinds of areas

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and so i i put this caption a to be or

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not to be

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protected that is the question

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will you protect your invention or will

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you give it to the world

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so this is my being silly the jesus

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patent strategy

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now jesus decides that he's you know

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giving to all and why protect this thing

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you want to get out everything out to

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um and you know you're not in it for a

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personal gain and stuff like that

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the reality of our lives

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that we need to work and survive make

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unless i'm sorry to put like graphic

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there maybe someone be offended by that

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i joke you

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but unless you're really uh willing to

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put your whole life out there and and

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give it all up i don't recommend that

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first strategy i think approaching

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patents and realizing that if you can

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you can get a patent on something you

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know maybe certain technology you can if

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you don't want to make money on it you

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can at least steer the the community you

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know if like

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if you patent something perhaps you can

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actually help guide the direction of

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some where it will go

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and if you can you want to get into

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research you need funding and investors

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and usually they like to see patents and

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now here's another the second hurdle

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which i kind of would say is really a

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lot of hurdles in there

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is that for patents usually you're

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focusing on technology that's developed

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a new widget a new projector or

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something very things that people can

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look at and and see

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one of the standards for obtaining a

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patent is that it has the patent has to

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have utility usefulness

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um and there's a case law and things

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that have developed over time

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basically setting forth certain things

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that you couldn't patent

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you can't patent something that covers

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basic law of nature and a lot of things

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that we're talking about

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are perhaps basic laws of nature can you

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heal by certain thought processes and

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as well as the patent office and i was

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actually a patent examiner in the 80s

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and i remember one of my friends coming

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in going look someone's applying a

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patent they have a wheel that basically

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they think rolls further than the

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regular wheel it's like

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they were so excited to be like

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rejecting it on being a perpetual motion

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machine because that's not possible

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so the patent office will will basically

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look at some technologies if you say i

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have an invention that you can then by

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based on your thought process change the

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color of the light in your room and you

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uh the patent office having a difficult

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time accepting that whether or not there

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might be some uh basis or articles and

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many of you have written that would

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support some of these things

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as well as basic mathematical algorithms

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you know statistical methods for

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improving accuracy for winning the

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those types of things are hard to patent

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sometimes it's hard to patent it

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sometimes you can patent an algorithm in

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some kind of context but you're

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definitely dealing with types of

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inventions that are in areas that are

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kind of on the fringes of patentability

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patents i would think

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as well as things that are purely mental

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steps you know if it's something that's

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just carried out in your head patent

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office doesn't care you know

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so they basically want something tied to

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that one goes through in remote viewing

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invention i think maybe there's a

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issue there as to whether everyone you

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know it's old knowledge or whether some

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of it's actually can be developed

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that probably goes into someone else's

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lecture

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in dc has changed the law pretty

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substantially that limits the ability to

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patent software

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and business methods and general methods

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the invention created some kind of a

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tangible result i don't know if anyone's

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patented things maybe they've heard this

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then the courts here would say yeah some

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tangible result printed out a number

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value uh to estimate the likelihood of

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of winning the lottery yeah that's a

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tangible result and they'd get like you

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get a patent on it now they actually

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you to create something that's more tied

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and the functioning of the machine or

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transformed some article of manufacture

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the reason for that is more because of

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all these internet patents that came out

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and there's a lot of people trying to

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patent everything on the internet like

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you know clicking on one little thing

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and to get money

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but um it's just

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something to understand that it's a

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little bit difficult to obtain patents

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in these areas but

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not totally impossible

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um and then also you can't

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get patents on methods of actually

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treating patients that's the whole idea

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there are some limitations on that

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one of the things one can do

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is if you have invention that's in some

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area where the patent office might

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consider that it has no utility or not

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believe that it will work in the way

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it's intended to work you could

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basically patent the device

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focusing on another utility of it you

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know maybe the it creates a novelty item