patenting
Meaning
of Patent
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After you determine that your invention idea is actually worth protecting and can be protected with a patent, the question you need to ask yourself is whether patenting your invention makes sense.
Bose planned to "perfect his coherer", but never thought of patenting it.
A subsequent lawsuit brought by the Canavan Foundation against Miami Children's Hospital, and was resolved with a sealed out-of-court settlement. citation The case is sometimes cited in arguments about the appropriateness of patenting genes.
In an unusual decision, Curie intentionally refrained from patenting the radium-isolation process, so that the scientific community could do research unhindered.
In the episode, Venter is referenced as patenting an organism and encoding a message in the genome of that organism, an act repeated by the character of Aldous Leekie (played by Matt Frewer ).
Moe also sees an added benefit to publishing all of the files related to his company's printers: It helps keep others from patenting advancements in 3D printing.