
Consider a Spherical Patent: IP and Patenting in Technology Business
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the owner with a time-limited monopoly on the invention with the trade-o that the
patent disclose how to make and use the invention—that is, an enabling disclosure.
An interesting aspect of enablement is that you need not know the underlying
phenomenon that makes the invention work. Rather, the description needs
only to provide enough details for someone else to make and use the invention.
Forexample, if someone discovers that sprinkling our on a computer chip makes
it run faster, there is no need to teach about the our semiconductor physics at
work. It is only necessa ...