Lecture 01 - The History and Theory of Patents

[@bapts70]

This is an excellent lecture series. I'm not a lawyer but, interested in ethics, justice, law etc. in general, and being a technical person, I have been interested in how these concepts apply to new discoveries and inventions i.e. patents. I had been looking for some material on the internet, and just came across one of these lectures by chance. I was so impressed by the Professor's clarity, comprehensiveness and approach that I have now subscribed to the channel and going through all the lectures systematically. The lectures are so understandable to a lay person like me yet, they don't seem to miss any of the intricate details that a professional patent lawyer would need to know. Thank you Prof. Wagner! We need more professors like you in all areas of education. You are amazing!

[@DontNeedToKnow84]

The audio goes bad at 38:54

[@Chris-ci8vs]

Cheers for uploading these :-)

[@michaelyu1]

turned into a robot at around 39 minutes

[@ActingKaQeeda]

Upto 40.20

[@Zakariah1971]

So there is no evidence of patents in any culture prior to the Greeks

[@Zakariah1971]

Where is the comparative patent law lecture? Does the US innovate in a vacuum?

[@russell4527]

Sometimes you need to listen to these more than one time, again and again to get it

[@Zakariah1971]

Should include some comparative patent law...

[@arrowstheorem1881]

Patent relates to Law. The legal systems of the world favor the rich and powerful.

[@_Breakdown]

7:20 - - left off here

[@67jedi67]

patent law, is one of the most inhibitive concepts in relation to socioeconomics and the advancement of human society as a whole. It is almost purely driven by greed and or 'economic viability' from a corporate perspective. and can arguably contribute to law enforced industry wide negligence. one example is diazepam, when created it was such a useful drug that it assisted in transforming the company hoffmann la-roche into what it eventually became, what we know it as today, a mega corporation. which was of great benefit for shareholders, executives and those who could acquire the newly patented drug. some of the problems with this are that many could not afford the drug due to a patentee's ability to price control the new product. another negative consequence due to its effectiveness was that many other pharmaceuticals then went on to attempt to acquire market share of this success by creating derivatives of the drug. in some case this produced new drugs that were of great benefit, but initially it meant that some patients were prescribed an inferior product and thus were on some level neglected by the medical establishment. the repetition of this concept can be seen throughout society and history, were newly created technologies are effectively in some cases used to hold individuals, organisations and even entire countries to ransom using the mechanism of patent law to do so. it is also worth noting that many individuals without substantial amounts of capital or legal departments at their disposal have been manipulated out of their creations, due to the complex nature of bringing a concept from the 'drawing board' to the brink of marketing and distributing, this is relatively common, and is surely the reason why the concept of patent law was created in the first instance. How we respond to these problems as a collective will no doubt be partially dictated by the corporate structures of society and not the persons they exist to serve, until an evolution of awareness, consciousness and attitude to these ideas becomes irrefutable and unacceptable to the majority of the population, these complex structures and their restrictions on society could persist for some time.

[@moeiscool]

honestly that is the reason why i am here. I want to know more about the enemy (corrupt legalities) of my children (my creations).

[@nodelayfordays8083]

So true... Honestly I think if things were less subjective and more objective and the cost of dealing with this wasn't left to the wealth patents would be fine. But it's clearly only a tool for the wealth to get more wealthy. If your a lay person and want to leverage a patent good luck. Want to file a reexamining of an existing one? Good luck. Want to try a startup and see if what your doing is possibly a work around good luck. All those things require lots of money.

[@Zakariah1971]

Why spend $50,000 a year for a Penn law degree when I can audit for free? Genius.