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)