Intellectual Property is Simple to Understand – But Lawyers Make it Complicated (patent edition)


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hey there I’m Gary Schuster welcome to Innovation Cafe now intellectual property is actually fairly simple to understand but lawyers make it out to be super complicated I don’t know why maybe it’s so that you’ll hire us but let me simplify one thing there going to be a lot of videos in this series but first one today patent claims there’s something called Markman hearings which is named after a case involves someone Nam Markman and in a Markman hearing a judge takes a patent claim and translates it from complex language that the patent office approves back into English why don’t I say back into English because when the inventor first sent thing to the patent lawyer It Was Written in English the patent lawyer goes back and forth with a patent examiner and between them they make it so complicated that no one can understand it except a federal district court judge with a couple of law flirts unnecessary but makes it seem complicated makes there a need for uh lawyers so in under a minute that was why patent claims are complicated let’s look out for copyright next

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