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– can be a asexually reproducible plants (grafts & cutting), sexually reproducible plants (pollination), monopolized under the Plant Variety Protection Act …
• Computer programs are best example for both a patent & copyright protection
– Run “routines” (a series of numerical relationships)
• be covered under the copyright laws
– Composing a set of instructions that make a machine operate in a certain way (To affect some Hardware or process) • (1) is tied to a particular machine or apparatus, or
• (2) transforms an article into a different state or thing
• 73% of all inventions, have started new industries, are from individual inventors
– “Everything that can be invented has been invented”
• U.S. Patent Office Director urging President to abolish the Office in 1899
– Don’t say: no use going on with it because surely someone has invented it already
– Try to develop your invention be a readily sold
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Ref: HTC
Invention lesson (2)
problem recognition & solution
• Most inventions are conceived by the following two-step procedure:
– (1) recognizing a problem <- 90%
• Run two-step process of identifying a problem & solving it – Find a problem: “To be an inventor is to perceive (feel) need.”
– Solve it: Try to make it cheaper, faster, bigger or smaller, etc.
– (2) fashioning a solution <- inspiration 10%
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Invention practice (1)
Intermittent Windshield Wipers
• Problem:
– In drizzles, the slowest speed of windshield wipers was unnecessarily fast, and merely slowing the wipers was unsatisfactory, since a slow sweep was annoying.
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Invention practice (2)
Intermittent Windshield Wipers
• Solution: – Provide a “drizzle” setting where the windshield wipers
made normally fast sweeps but paused after each sweep.
• Individual inventor – Dr. Kearns’s brilliantly ingenious solution earned him and
his estate over $50 million in royalties, after he sued Ford, Chrysler, and others, as documented in the movie, Flash of Genius (靈光乍現)
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HW 1
• Practice 2 steps of inventions
– find a problem
– Try to solve it
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Reference
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• David Pressman, chapter 1 &2, “Patent It Yourself: Your Step-by-Step Guide” to Filing at the U.S. Patent Office, 2011, 15th edition, ISBN-10: 1413313825
• Flash of Genius Official Movie Trailer HD, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSd1BS8E3RE
• Blog: http://fungsiong.blogspot.com/ • Agile for progressing:
http://fungsiong.blogspot.com/search/label/Agile
• China patent statistics http://news.cnyes.com/Content/20120229/KFINDD5EYQIBI.shtml?c=sh_stock