Speaker 1: On today's episode of I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either.
Speaker 1: Have a question, did Katrina Parrot ever get her patent?
Speaker 1: I didn't know. Maybe you didn't. I didn't know. Maybe
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't know. Maybe you didn't. I
Speaker 1: didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. The answer
Speaker 1: is no if you're not familiar with Katrina Parrot. The
Speaker 1: year was twenty thirteen and Katrina Parrot's daughter trying to
Speaker 1: use her emojis, but she had a problem and she
Speaker 1: ran to mommy and said, Mommy, none of my emojis
Speaker 1: looked like me. And Katrina Paris said, you know what, baby,
Speaker 1: Mama gonna fix that, and Mama fixed that. She diversified emojis.
Speaker 1: Before Katrina parent's inventions, everybody was out here looking like
Speaker 1: Simpson characters. I personally know people that did not use
Speaker 1: the emojis because they said they didn't look like no
Speaker 1: dann bar Simpson. She created five different emojis. She created
Speaker 1: the fist pump, she created the high five. Five months later,
Speaker 1: she had them joints in the app store ready for
Speaker 1: folks to download, and all we got to downloading them
Speaker 1: colorful emojis, and it only makes sense a last name
Speaker 1: as colorful as Parrot would create and diversify the emojis.
Speaker 1: And then big tech stepped in and big text said, hey,
Speaker 1: we want to use these, and they took them and
Speaker 1: they got a patent from the Patent Office before Katrina
Speaker 1: Parrot could get a patent for her own ideas. I mean,
Speaker 1: every single time she submits to the United States Patent
Speaker 1: and Trademark Office, she gets told no. Like if you
Speaker 1: ask somebody if they listen to a Nick Cannon mixtape,
Speaker 1: she gets denied like Tory Lanez requesting a new trial. Man.
Speaker 1: It happens far too often. Giant tech companies like Apple,
Speaker 1: they get granted patent after patent after patent by the
Speaker 1: USPTO at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. But
Speaker 1: women and entrepreneurs of color, we always got to climb
Speaker 1: these steep hurdles to get credit for our ideas, for
Speaker 1: our intellectual property. Way too often our patent get rejected.
Speaker 1: Why it even happens? In music, Google ray Rai Rye Rye.
Speaker 1: She's an artist out of Baltimore. Drake sampled her voice.
Speaker 1: Do honestly nevermind, along with other artists that have sampled
Speaker 1: her voice and she gets no credit for it. She
Speaker 1: complains about it constantly on social media. Nobody cares. Imagine
Speaker 1: my dismay when I turned on Beyonces before I let
Speaker 1: go and heard my voice at the very beginning of
Speaker 1: the track. I hadn't talked to anybody about putting my
Speaker 1: music on No Beyonce album. I mean, my mama very
Speaker 1: happy about it, But that's my intellectual property, same as
Speaker 1: Katrina Parrot. When the big tech companies come through and
Speaker 1: they take your ideas, they take your intellectual property, they
Speaker 1: get patents for it, there's nothing you can do about it.
Speaker 1: And Katrina Parent's done her due diligence. She's done the
Speaker 1: correct paperwork to get these patents for eleven years in
Speaker 1: counting steal nothing. So to the original question, get Katrina
Speaker 1: Parrot ever get her patent? The answer is no, not yet.
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