Placing a lock on the use of such information conflicts with how physicians have practiced medicine from time immemorial.
Perhaps it is for the recognition and street cred. What do you think? In the process of conceiving, funding, developing, and growing Medical Justice, Dr. Segal holds a M. Segal received his B.
If you have a medico-legal question, write to Medical Justice at infonews medicaljustice-staging. There are several moving parts here. Next is the issue of what kind of protection a technique—as distinct from a drug or device—is appropriate. Thinking about it, it seems that a copyright rather than a patent would be the right protection.
Even though Dr. Does MicroSoft patent or copyright their stuff? Ethics is another dimension of the question. Medicine and related fields pharmacology, nursing, etc. So, is it ethical to withhold a superior technique in exchange for money? It probably is. The best way to address it is to see just how generic you can make the technological invention. If it is generic enough without sacrificing its technical nature, you should be able to get meaningful patent protection.
Another issue that inventors are concerned about is if they are only patenting what the computer is doing, they might not be able to tell if there is infringement. For example, infringement of a back-end innovation, such as a novel database structure, may be very difficult to detect. It may be best to keep those innovations a trade secret.
Infringement of a front-end innovation, such as a novel graphical user interface GUI , may be much easier to detect and much harder to keep a trade secret.
That would indicate that patent protection is the best way to go. Protecting groundbreaking business method innovations is a challenge. The current legal and political climate make it very difficult to directly patent the business method itself. Patenting the technical inventions that are necessary for the practical implementation of the business method, however, is much more promising, especially for innovators seeking venture funding. He is a registered US patent agent specializing in business methods.
Tags: Alice Corp. Read more. How sad, however, that in order to protect the gold that is their often breakthrough business methods; inventors should instead consider directing the attention of patent adjudicators to the copper and the tin of their inventions. I agree with Pro Se remarks. I guess I rather go down swinging than dignify the insanity with a approach that caters to it.
See a longstanding problem, solve a longstanding problem is the patent world I chose to live in regardless if it used a computer. Might financial backers even require that such attention be given, in order to maximise the return on their investment?
Mark, might you want to add a word about the imperative of getting the drafting right first time, the error of supposing that you can leave all the scrivening till after filing at the USPTO. We issued about , patents last year. Some were software-related business methods. Are you concerned that patenting business methods will ultimately dampen innovation? This is not the first time that argument has been raised. It was raised over telephony.
It was raised in the chemical industry when companies applied for patents on various monomers and copolymers. And it was argued originally in relation to patenting any kind of software at all. But in all those cases, innovation in the general industry actually increased. Patents give their owners rights to their innovations—for 20 years from the date they file the application, currently.
But then patent owners must make their innovations public, which lets other people build on them. Here's how to avoid accidentally stepping on the rights of another's creative work. In order to qualify for copyright protection, an original creative work must exist in tangible form—in other words, written down or in a form you can touch. The patent process begins by searching for similar patents. Find out more about how to see if someone has patented your idea.
Intellectual Property Basics. There are different ways to protect original ideas. The method you choose depends on the kind of idea you have. Social media is becoming a vital part of marketing strategies in businesses bothlarge and small. Connecting with customers is the new expectation. But how this trend affects both the creators of original content and those who choose to repost or retweet something that wasn't their creation—remains to be seen.
A patent which grants ownership of an invention, but it won't pay you. There are a few ways you can generate a profit from your idea. An act, or a series of acts or steps. An example is patenting a special configuration of machines in a factory or a software process to move or transform data. What makes it novel is the steps or a novel arrangement of existing steps. A concrete thing consisting of parts, or a combination of devices.
An example would be a bicycle, airplane engine or an electric drill. What makes it novel is a new way of combining existing parts. An article produced from raw or prepared materials by changing their form, shape or other properties. Such as coated wires, plastic tubes used in surgery, construction materials. What makes it novel is new ways of producing the article or the use of new raw or prepared materials. Composition of Matter.
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