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But as of 2017, according to statistics reported by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and published by the Federation of American Scientists, there were 5,784 patents that you can’t see. They ...

He found that citation-weighted patent counts were highly correlated with differences in estimated surplus value (even though patent counts alone showed no such correlation). 82 John R. Allison, Mark A. Lemley, Kimberly A. Moore, and R. Derek Trunkey used patents involved in litigation as a sample of valuable patents and found that these ...

Some groundbreaking inventions surprisingly lack patents, allowing their widespread use without ownership restrictions. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, for example, chose not to patent the internet ...

Benjamin Franklin is one of the most famous inventors of all time, which might make it surprising to learn that he never held a single patent. Not because they weren ’ t available to him, but because he steadfastly refused to patent any of his inventions. Clearly, he believed that if someone wanted to use a kite to electrify themselves, they ...

Looking at scientific papers that cited patents containing prophetic examples, she found that 99 of 100 failed to mention that the examples weren’t real inventions. In other words, they were citing fantasy. We can cut the scientists some slack here. Many prophetic patents are written with exacting specificity, and mention details that seem legit.

Illustrated by the publication’s own artist W.B. Robinson, the Illustrated London News presented a series of the bizarre designs that had been submitted to the Patent Office, but had since ‘lain dormant.’. We at The Archive were keen to delve into our collection’s cabinet of curiosities, and these rejected patents, as presented by the Illustrated London News, seemed like an excellent ...

Examples of non-patented yet widely used inventions include the computer mouse, the ballpoint pen, and even Coca-Cola’s recipe. ... Numerous well-known inventions either were never patented or lost their patent protection over time. Examples include: Computer Mouse: ...

Yes, plenty of inventions will still come about even if there were no patents. However expensive R&D that requires huge funding may go away. ... There are tons of problems with the patent system but the argument that "patented inventions never get used" is wrong on so many levels. Reply reply more replies. more replies. More replies.

The patents cater for every strain of 20th century society, from a self-tipping hat for the discerning gent to a harness support for a greyhound-riding monkey Above: Artwork of a harness and ...

Various inventions that have become well-known were never patented, including matches, emoticons, and the magnetic strip.Other noteworthy examples include the polio vaccine (Jonas Salk), monoclonal antibodies (Cesar Milstein), the scanning tunneling microscope (IBM scientists Binnig and Rohrer), and the penicillin (invented and deliberately not patented by Fleming, later patented by Coghill ...

The solution became the Patent Office's first attempt at crowdsourcing its own history. Within a few months, Congress and Commissioner Ellsworth put out a call to patentees for information about their inventions, and based on the mailed-in responses, some 2,800 patents could be reconstructed. But the rest—more than 7,000—were never recovered.

Of today’s 2.1 million active patents, 95 percent fail to be licensed or commercialized. These unlicensed patents include over 50,000 high-quality patented inventions developed by universities.

Starting in 2011, Innovatio IP Ventures, a nonpracticing entity, sent more than 8,000 demand letters to targets in 50 states claiming violations of patents it owned on equipment found in common ...

The recipe for Coca-Cola, which was never patented, remains a notable commercial secret (Pendergrast 2000, p. 348).1 ... (14 years), but patent fees were significantly higher in Britain: $37,000, compared to $618 in the United States (in 2000 U.S. dollars) (Lerner 2000). British inventors also faced a drawn-out

them cover inventions that were never made, or at least never worked. These non-existent inventions are referred to as “inoperative”, 8. and for lack of a better term, I call the patents that cover these inoperative inventions as “bad” (as in rotten, not evil) patents. I divide the world of inoperative inventions into three basic ...

Many such patents arise from work done by military contractors. But not all. This year, 11 of the 143 secret inventions are so-called "John Doe" patents that apparently had no government connection. For these inventors the classification may have come as a surprise. But it's hard to tell, since everything about the inventions is masked.

In sum, a substantial share of patents remained unused (∼40%) and about 67% of patent applications were filed to block other patents. We find important cross-technology and cross-country differences. Japan and EU exhibit a larger share of unused patents than the US, which is characterized by a larger share of patents licensed or sold.

[Stephen Kinsella, Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom, Link (CC-BY)] Patents are often used as indicators for economic and innovative progress. 1 The assumption is that many patents represent innovation, and also that many innovations are patented. Patent records thus correlate with innovation. A fascinating new paper, “Reassessing patent propensity: evidence from a data-set of R&D ...

He sold the matches in a box with sandpaper that was used for striking. Walker never patented his invention because he wanted to help people, not to get rich. Soon, though, many others stole his idea and began profiting from it. ... Futterman, Allison. "5 Inventions That Were Discovered by Accident." Discover, 18 July 2022, www.discovermagazine ...