patents

With COVID, None of Us are Safe Until All of Us are Safe

by Robert Brent Toplin

Deference to the patent claims of pharmaceutical companies are slowing the urgently needed distribution of COVID vaccines to poorer nations. Residents of rich nations will pay a price as new, potentially dangerous variants like Omicron spread. 

Abraham Lincoln, Tech Entrepreneur

by Sidney Blumenthal

The president who created the National Academy of Sciences in 1863, Abraham Lincoln, did more to advance the scientific revolution in American life than any chief executive of the 19th century.

“The thinking power called an idea”: Thomas Jefferson and the Right to Patents

by M. Andrew Holowchak

“Every discovery which multiplies the subsistence of man, must be a matter of joy to every friend to humanity.”

Seven Black Inventors Whose Patents Helped Shape American Life

Garrett Morgan created an improved gas mask. Marie Van Brittan Brown patented a home security system. Lonnie Johnson dreamed up the Super Soaker.