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Re: FIRST's patents

I did a quick report on Dean's patents in the US, which is attached. (Disclaimer - this was a quick search on all patents and applications by "Dean Kamen" - if he used a variation on that name it would not have been retrieved. Other Dean Kamens would also be included but it doesn't look like there are any others!) (And I haven't checked this list for accuracy)

There are 107 US patents and 81 published applications. The ones that start with a year, such as US20070252683, are applications which may or may not become issued patents. They are divided into 48 families which are all related by priority applications in some manner. (Either by an application being split into several different patents, or a new application being submitted based on priority matter in the original. I'm trying not to bore you here with details).

Take for example the second family listed, which is obviously the Segway. The issued patents are listed first, with applications next. Most of the applications listed in this family have probably all issued into patents already, except for some of the recent ones. (Applications are published 18 months after being filed). There are several families at the end of the report that have not (yet) become issued patents.

It is interesting to look at the pattern of research. He started out in the medical field, added work on the engines and distillers, then moved to the Segway type of inventions. Doesn't look like the bionic arm work has published yet, but I'm willing to bet that they have been filed.

Pretty impressive list. Edison did have 1100+ US patents, but patenting was very different then.
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