Some officials at the research centers think the centers should patent their own work, if only to have something to trade with industry.
Like Yves Klein's deep, uncomfortable blue, Pixar should patent the particular happysadness you feel when you emerge from seeing its films.
My hangover cure is so good I should patent it.
You got a great idea,'" A representative also told her she should patent her invention "ASAP".
For example, when should patent protection be relaxed for humanitarian reasons, and what barriers to follow-on innovation might the IP system itself create?
Visit the United States Patent and Trademark Office website at http://www.uspto.gov/inventors/index.jsp for information about who should patent inventions, what kind of patents are available and what limitations are placed on inventors when they patent their inventions.
ONLY those inventions "worth to the public the embarrassment of an exclusive patent" should receive patent protection, declared Thomas Jefferson, himself an inventor and America's first commissioner of patents.
You should file patents, but these patents provide less protection than you might think.
"The patent examination process should stop patents from being issued on old or obvious technology," MIT writes.
Maybe the role model should be patents which last for 20 years.
