This is a world changing invention.

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Ellen 't Hoen Pool medical patents, save lives

Marc Koska 1.3m reasons to re invent the syringe

McDonald's actually spent 10 years coming out with a chicken like product.

So far we've applied for 414 patent claims.

In the spirit of this year's TED Conference, we think this is a powerful, world changing invention.

In 2010, UNITAID established the Medicines Patent Pool for HIV.

And this is how it works Patent holders, inventors that develop new medicines patent those inventions, but make those patents available to the Medicines Patent Pool. The Medicines Patent Pool then license those out to whoever needs access to those patents.

Patenting a new drug helps finance its immense cost to develop but that same patent can put advanced treatments out of reach for sick people in developing nations, at deadly cost. Ellen 't Hoen talks about an elegant, working solution to the problem the Medicines Patent Pool. i i

And in fact they weren't. They were reinventing charity in those times, what Rockefeller called the business of benevolence.

It's 1876, it's in Boston, and this is Alexander Graham Bell who was working with Thomas Watson on the invention of the telephone.

And thankfully for all of us, the English are very good at inventing things, and then the gracious people that they are, they let the world become very good at it.

The invention of printing did away with anonymity, fostering ideas of literary fame and the habit of considering intellectual effort as private property, which had never been done before printing.

So, 5,000 years after the invention of the wheel, we have a new wheel. And I will show you, in the next video can you start it, please? that very heavy loads can be moved.

When you have a patent, you can exclude anyone else from making, from producing or making low cost versions, for example, available of those medications.

Dr. Edith Widder she's now at the Ocean Research and Conservation Association was able to come up with a camera that could capture some of these incredible animals, and that's what you're seeing here on the screen.

We're 25, 26 years after the advent of the Macintosh, which was an astoundingly seminal event in the history of human machine interface and in computation in general.

Every new invention changes the world in ways both intentional and unexpected. Historian Edward Tenner tells stories that illustrate the under appreciated gap between our ability to innovate and our ability to foresee the consequences.

But if we can get that data out from behind the dam so software innovators can pounce on it, the way software innovators like to do, who knows what we'll be able to come up with.

Jaime Lerner reinvented urban space in his native Curitiba, Brazil. Along the way, he changed the way city planners worldwide see what s possible in the metropolitan landscape.

So, this syntax, the username that Shaquille O'Neal's using here to reply to one of his fans, was completely invented by users, and we didn't build it into the system until it already became popular and then we made it easier.

And to do this, I knew that I had to see the way in which artists work, understand the artist's studio as a laboratory, imagine, then, reinventing the museum as a think tank and looking at the exhibition as the ultimate white paper asking questions, providing the space to look and to think about answers.

Now we count on the willingness of drug companies to make that happen. We count on those companies that understand that it is in the interest, not only in the interest of the global good, but also in their own interest, to move from conflict to collaboration, and through the Medicines Patent Pool they can make that happen.