There is a famous saying in the American patent community: "Everything new under the sun can be patented."
Nowadays, patent awareness is getting stronger and stronger. No member has ever said this before, but Now if you don’t have a membership, you can’t watch videos, listen to songs, or read novels, and many of them are resources only available on exclusive platforms. So for your favorite TV movies, you can only bite the bullet and buy a membership. It is normal for other people’s creations to receive royalties, because they are other people’s creations. However, no one has ever said who owns the earth or whose sun belongs to them. Only when asteroids that have never been discovered by humans can be discovered, the discoverer’s patent rights can be used. It is also a supreme honor to be named. However, some people took advantage of the loophole and applied for personal ownership of the sun, and also attempted to charge fees for the use of the sun.
The sun is our light source and our energy. Without sunlight, plants cannot grow, and the earth will become extinct. However, there is no law that stipulates that the sun cannot be privately owned, and the "Outer Space Treaty" promulgated by the United Nations It is stipulated that no country can claim to own any planet or star, but there is no rule that individuals cannot own it. This is a loophole, and the Spanish woman Angelas Duran discovered this loophole and took advantage of it. In 2011, Angela Duran applied to the local government to patent the sun as her private property. The government did not respond to her application and had no right to decide that the sun belonged to her personally. Later, she applied to the United Nations, but unexpectedly The United Nations approved her application because her application did not violate United Nations regulations, and the sun truly became her personal belonging.
Logically speaking, since the sun is hers, she should be satisfied, but Angela Duran continued to apply to the United Nations, and everyone should pay her a US dollar sun usage fee, and It must be paid every year. This has affected the interests of everyone in the world. The United Nations is also embarrassed and regrets its decision. There was really no other way. The United Nations could only withdraw its previous approval and cancel her private ownership of the sun, but it also paid Angela Duran half a million US dollars as compensation. This incident also made Angela Duran see the signs. A company took a fancy to her ability to find loopholes and hired her with a high salary, so even if there was no sun usage fee to collect, she would not worry about her living income.
Maybe this is just a farce to everyone, but Angela Duran has gained huge benefits from this farce, and he has no worries about food and drink in life. In fact, patents are really important. Take the straw we use to drink milk as an example. This was an idea that a Japanese child came up with when he was sick and hospitalized. He folded the habitual corner so that it can be turned in different directions. Now I think this is a very simple thing, do you still need to use your brain? But before the straw came out, no one thought of this idea, so every straw had to pay patent tax to the little boy. This is the role of patents. Therefore, we can also use our brains more often. Maybe we can accidentally discover unique ideas that only we can think of, so that we can apply for a patent. Whether it can be mass-produced or not, it is a kind of pride. China still lacks Chinese patents in many aspects, and there is still a gap with foreign countries. We must continue to work hard to develop science and technology and catch up with powerful countries.