Pharmaceutical companies are calling on the government to protect their patent on prescription drugs for a minimum of 10 years.

The man who invented the artificial heart donated the patent for it to the University of Utah.

His invention owes a great deal to a patent registered in Poland 20 years previously.

The world's first patent was granted in Italy in 1421 to a man who made a barge crane to transport marble.

Marie and Pierre Curie refused to patent their process of making radium, declaring it belonged to the world.

On being asked who owned the patent on his antipolio vaccine, Jonas Salk responded, "The people.

Could you patent the sun?" Discussion question: Should private companies be able to patent a living creature, such as the genetically-engineered mouse at Harvard? path Marie and Pierre Curie refused to patent their process of making radium, declaring it belonged to the world.

A patent right is an important property.





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