Patent law protects the technical. It is seemingly objective in terminology and application. Yet studies show that males are significantly more likely than females to be the inventors of patented inventions. Patenting is not objective, it is gendered. The reasons for this are multiple and include the fact that patent law itself, including its presumptions and interpretation, is gendered. This article examines how patent law reflects multiple gendered binaries, despite being drafted in ostensibly neutral terms. These serve to favour masculine modes and fields of creation, while ignoring and devaluing feminine knowledge and ways of knowing. We should be concerned that patent law is gendered because patents affect wealth distribution, what is invented and commercialized, and what information and knowledge is disseminated, built upon, and viewed as valuable. Thus, instead of embodying gendered binaries, the law should reflect a singularity – a unique point, where the system degenerates or diverges to recognize and encourage the multiplicity of ways in which invention and innovation can and do occur, beyond socially constructed binaries.

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性别“客观”专利法：二进制和奇异性

专利法保护技术。它在术语和应用方面似乎是客观的。然而研究表明，男性比女性更有可能成为专利发明的发明者。申请专利不是客观的，而是有性别的。造成这种情况的原因是多方面的，其中包括专利法本身（包括其推定和解释）本身是按性别划分的。本文研究了专利法尽管表面上是中性的措词，但却如何反映了多种性别的二进制文件。这些有助于偏爱男性化的创造方式和领域，同时忽略和贬低女性知识和认识方式。我们应该关注的是，专利法是两性平等的，因为专利会影响财富的分配，发明和商业化的内容以及基于，并被视为有价值 因此，法律不应体现性别化的二进制文件，而应体现出一种独特性-这是一个独特的点，在该点上，系统退化或发散，以承认和鼓励发明和创新可以并且确实发生的方式超出了社会构建的二进制文件。