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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Patent applications"”.
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A student's guide to United States patent applications
This thesis presents a comprehensive guide to patent applications in the United States derived from the information provided by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). This guide gives indepth instructions for completing and suggestions for filing a provisional, utility, design, or …
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Learning About LED Lighting Technology Through Patents
<p>Patents and published patent applications are valuable resources to students, engineers, and researchers for learning about technology. This thesis investigated the ability to learn about a technology through the disclosures that are made in published patent applications and issued patents.</p> …
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THE INFLUENCE OF CORPORATE VENTURE CAPITAL ON INNOVATION: EVIDENCE FROM CHINA
… level of startups.For further insight, invention patents and utility patents will be considered, in addition to a separate examination of the number of patent applications and patent grants. It is found that CVC participation, the number of CVC syndicate investors, and the level of CVC …
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Essays on innovation and public policy
… The first chapter analyzes how tax rates on patent- and trademark-related income affect where patents and trademarks are located internationally. I study how changes in patent and trademark tax rates in various countries altered the flow of patents and trademarks in and out of the countries. …
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Essays on the Economics of Science and Innovation
… third chapter studies whether male and female patent examiners treat patent applications submitted by women differently. The first chapter, joint with Ryan Hill, investigates how competition to publish first and thereby establish priority impacts the quality of scientific research. We begin by …
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Research on the Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions Transaction Size and Innovation Performance of Pharmaceuticals Industry
… companies in terms of two aspects: the number of patent applications and the number of patents granted, and on three levels: invention patents, utility model patents and design patents. The results of the research show that: M&A transaction size promotes the growth of the number of patent …
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An exploration of through-the-eye intraocular pressure measurement device
… the IOP measurement techniques described in patents and patent applications since 1950 are examined. None of the methods provides a simple and comfortable approach for patients to self monitor their IOPs at different times throughout the day. A through-the-eyelid tonometry method is proposed …
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Two Essays on Corporate Governance
… firm reduces the number of citation-weighted patent applications by 30.7%. The number of patent applications also increases when an academic director becomes less busy after another company she holds directorship is acquired. Consistent with an advising channel, academic directors in STEM …
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The Role of Foreign Patents in US Firms’ Patent Portfolios
I investigate the role of foreign patents (patents issued in countries outside of the US) in US firms’ patent portfolios. Foreign patents are substantial and prevalent for US firms. Foreign patents form about 39% of the average patent portfolio of US firms. Firms with foreign patent applications …
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Essays in Corporate Finance and Corporate Innovation
… RFOs if they have more knowledge capital, more patents awarded, more citations received by these patents, and more patents for “breakthrough” innovations. After the risk of poaching by rival firms is diminished by the adoption of the Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine, I find that firms with above …
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Patents of traditional medicine inventions and their relationship with traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources in Namibia: proposals for legal reform
… safe and efficacious drugs and vaccines and how patent law assist this achieving this end. The study argues that patenting of traditional medicine inventions is possible without encroaching on the protection accorded to TK associated with GRs. It further argues that through the implementation of …
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Innovation and economic growth in two perspectives: Social capital and social protection policies
… labor supplied in the market, and the number of patent applications; and a negative association between interpersonal trust and the share of the labor force comprised of non-scientists and engineers. Then, it tests these results by exploiting the exogenous variation in culture caused by …
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The Immobilisation of Radioactive Wastes
… described in this thesis is the subject of patent applications in the United Kingdom and overseas.
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Real options in value appropriation: Theory and evidence from patent strategies
… flexibility in their commitment decisions in patenting strategies. In my first empirical study (Chapter 2), I seek to examine the patent-secrecy choice as an exemplar of the value of such real options in appropriability strategies. As a primary hypothesis, I propose that the greater the risk …
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Inventions in climate technologies: A patent analysis
… monitor the development of climate technologies. Patents, in this context, offer valuable insights to research the development and diffusion of (climate) technologies. This research addresses the complexities involved in identifying and classifying climate technologies from patent data, while …
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Two Essays in Corporate Finance
… facilitates value-creation and long-term growth, patents protect the firm’s innovative findings and intellectual property rights. We suggest that legal expertise of the managers and the board provide valuable legal assistance with the patenting process. We document that firms with greater board …
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Measuring Firm Innovation and its Relationship with IPO and M&A Activities
… (M&A) using innovation data based on patent applications, new product introductions, and scientific article publications. The quantity of innovation is measured by number of innovative outputs and the quality of innovation is measured by a variety of metrics including patent or article …
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Environmentally friendly, rare earth-based inhibitors in conversion coatings and paint for the corrosion protection of aluminum alloys
… coatings. As a consequence of this study, five patent applications were filed as well as numerous papers and reports"--Abstract, page iv.</p>
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Examination of machine learning methods for multi-label classification of intellectual property documents
… applied to a corpus of United States patent grants. The rapidly rising number of patent applications in the past several decades has led to a rising need for enhanced automatic patent processing tools. The task of automated document classification in particular has been targeted as an …
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Empirical and theoretical observations in trade secrecy : statutory prescriptions and endogenous growth
… may be as important, if not more important, than patenting as an intellectual property protection mechanism in the United States economy. While patent protection has always been an institution in the United States as a result of its inclusion in the Constitution, trade secret protection has only …
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