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000042078 1001_ $$aLemley, Mark A.
000042078 24503 $$aThe Myth of the Sole Inventor
000042078 264_1 $$a[Stanford, California] :$$bStanford Law School,$$c2011.
000042078 300__ $$a108 pages
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000042078 520__ $$aThe theory of patent law is based on the idea that a lone genius can solve problems that stump the experts, and that the lone genius will do so only if properly incented. We deny patents on inventions that are "obvious" to ordinarily innovative scientists in the field. Our goal is to encourage extraordinary inventions – those that we wouldn’t expect to get without the incentive of a patent.  The canonical story of the lone genius inventor is largely a myth. Edison didn’t invent the light bulb; he found a bamboo fiber that worked better as a filament in the light bulb developed by Sawyer and Man, who in turn built on lighting work done by others. Bell filed for his telephone patent on the very same day as an independent inventor, Elisha Gray; the case ultimately went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which filled an entire volume of U.S. Reports resolving the question of whether Bell could have a patent despite the fact that he hadn’t actually gotten the invention to work at the time he filed. [...]  The point can be made more general: surveys of hundreds of significant new technologies show that almost all of them are invented simultaneously or nearly simultaneously by two or more teams working independently of each other. Invention appears in significant part to be a social, not an individual, phenomenon. Inventors build on the work of those who came before, and new ideas are often "in the air," or result from changes in market demand or the availability of new or cheaper starting materials. And in the few circumstances where that is not true – where inventions truly are "singletons" – it is often because of an accident or error in the experiment rather than a conscious effort to invent.
000042078 525__ $$aPublished in : Stanford Public Law Working Paper, no. 1856610
000042078 650__ $$aPatent
000042078 650_0 $$aPatent law
000042078 650_0 $$aInvention
000042078 85641 $$uhttps://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1856610$$yView this resource
000042078 904__ $$aJournal article
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