[NUUG patent] "The Myth of the Sole Inventor"
Petter Reinholdtsen
pere at hungry.com
Wed Aug 10 17:09:01 CEST 2011
Fra <URL: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1856610 >:
Abstract:
The theory of patent law is based on the idea that a lone genius can
solve problems that stump the experts, and that the lone genius will
do so only if properly incented. We deny patents on inventions that
are "obvious" to ordinarily innovative scientists in the field. Our
goal is to encourage extraordinary inventions ? those that we
wouldn?t expect to get without the incentive of a patent.
The canonical story of the lone genius inventor is largely a
myth. Edison didn?t invent the light bulb; he found a bamboo fiber
that worked better as a filament in the light bulb developed by
Sawyer and Man, who in turn built on lighting work done by
others. Bell filed for his telephone patent on the very same day as
an independent inventor, Elisha Gray; the case ultimately went to
the U.S. Supreme Court, which filled an entire volume of
U.S. Reports resolving the question of whether Bell could have a
patent despite the fact that he hadn?t actually gotten the invention
to work at the time he filed. The Wright Brothers were the first to
fly at Kitty Hawk, but their plane didn?t work very well, and was
quickly surpassed by aircraft built by Glenn Curtis and others ?
planes that the Wrights delayed by over a decade with patent
lawsuits.
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Vennlig hilsen,
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Petter Reinholdtsen
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