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Inventions and the creative process

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 May 2005Publisher:Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)Journal:IEEE Micro, volume 25, pages 96-95 (issn: 0272-1732, eissn: 1937-4143, Copyright policy )
Authors: Philip G. Emma;

doi: 10.1109/mm.2005.52

Inventions and the creative process

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Patents and inventions, while related (in that the former describes the latter), are orthogonal instruments. A patent is merely a legal document that entitles its bearer to an argument. Although it might contain an invention, this isn’t absolutely necessary. Whether it does is generally the subject of the (aforementioned) argument. That’s what lawyers are for. On the other hand, an invention is an abstract instrument created by the mind, and in the (nascent) information age, machines can also create.

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