My notes and 40+ pictures located below.

Terry Fisher On BMPs - Part 1 of 5 (Small - 39 MB)

Terry Fisher On BMPs - Part 2 of 5 (Small - 40 MB)

Terry Fisher On BMPs - Part 3 of 5 (Small - 36 MB)

Terry Fisher On BMPs - Part 4 of 5 (Small - 26 MB)

Terry Fisher On BMPs - Part 5 of 5 (Small - 41 MB)

More pictures underneath notes below.

Day 4 Tape 1

Terry - Business Method Patents

5:05 - different kinds of patents

5:34 - Examples of extensions to patents

6:31 - purified versions of naturally occurring..

10:07 - Plant Protection Act (1930) - asexually producing plants

10:42 - PVPA (1970) - sexually producing

11:09 - 1980 Chakrabarty

"Anything under the sun made by man is patentable." - Terry Fisher

12:02 - Supreme Court - also covered under utility patents

12:15 - 1954 - Atomic Weapons

12:40 - Software patents

13:30 - How surgical procedures were able to be patented

16:40 - Make doctors immune from prosecution

30:42 - Bounty Quest

33:10 - "Inventive Step" requirement

emergence of...

34:30 - In England

35:01 - France

35:12 - Germany

36:20 - Graham Factors

40:07 - ****verify*** Aggietation for Administrative Reform

42:31 - European Initiatives
Prohibited "methods of doing business" - not allowed unless involving "technical aspect"

44:24 - European BMPs
Queue systems

45:13 - Japanese Initiatives

46:00 - "Business Method Patents are a bad idea and we should not use them at all." - Terry

46:45 - Disadvantages of IPR

48:00 - Mousetrap example

50:25 - perfect price disc

Profit maximizing behavior by a rational monopolist

55:30 - people die because of profits

Day 4 - Tape 2

2:29 - Why Business Method Patents are bad

People innovate in Business anyway

Little, if any demonstrative benefits

Increased transaction costs:
-two examiners etc.
-large dead weight losses
-consumers priced out of the market

6:00 Q and A

8:29 Reward Theory

My pythagorus question here

20:00 - How do you define them? (Business Method Patents)