Patent Oscars: The good, the bad and the ugly

Readers will undoubtedly have followed with avid attention the 2019 Academy Awards season, which culminated with the Oscar awards ceremony a few weeks ago. However, readers are also likely to be saddened by the lack of patent-related story lines in connection with this years nominations. As a small compensation, this Kat takes the opportunity to review the rare occasions on which her favourite form of intellectual property has made it to the screen (albeit with mixed results).The Good: Joy and The Man Who Fell To EarthFirst, a film for the patent attorneys. The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) is a sci-fi classic. A gaunt David Bowie makes his silvers-screen debut as an alien on a mission to Earth in search of water for his own desiccated planet. Bowie the alien needs funds to finance delivery of water back to his own planet. His head is also filled with alien technology as yet unknown to human kind. Bowie thus finds himself a US patent attorney (Buck Henry,…

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