{"id":5673,"date":"2012-10-29T12:47:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T18:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=5673"},"modified":"2012-10-29T12:47:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T18:47:33","slug":"can-the-patent-system-help-stop-a-hurricane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=5673","title":{"rendered":"Can the Patent System Help Stop a Hurricane?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/oil-covered-wildlife4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2327\" title=\"oil-covered-wildlife4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/oil-covered-wildlife4-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"oil-covered-wildlife4\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/oil-covered-wildlife4-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/oil-covered-wildlife4.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a>Natural disasters often drive home the value of a patent system that incentivizes <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">all<\/span> types of innovation &#8212; whether it be living organisms or business methods. \u00a0For example, the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Chakrabarty<\/span> case concerned a new living organism that could be used to help clean up oil spills.<\/p>\n<p>You may have also heard of Nathan Myhrvold&#8217;s and Bill Gates&#8217; applications for taking the bite out of hurricanes. \u00a0For example, claims of this particular application are directed at a method of doing business: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/us20090177569-1.pdf\">[Water Alteration Structure Risk Management or Ecological Alteration Management Systems and Methods<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natural disasters often drive home the value of a patent system that incentivizes all types of innovation &#8212; whether it be living organisms or business methods. \u00a0For example, the Chakrabarty case concerned a new living organism that could be used to help clean up oil spills. You may have also heard of Nathan Myhrvold&#8217;s and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5677,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673\/revisions\/5677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}