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Showing 1 to 20 of 476 for “"patent"”.
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Patent Collaboration and Team Formation
The team formation problem has existed for many years in various guises. One important problem in the team formation problem is to produce small teams that have a required set of skills. We propose a framework that incorporates machine learning to predict unobserved links between collaborators, …
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Patent citations and licensing value
… the most promising of which is the analysis of patent information. Patents have been increasingly used by economists to track inventiveness, the transmission of knowledge, and their economic impact. However, it is evident that the maiority of patents have little or no economic potential, and so …
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Unilateral patent misuse : a comparative study of U.S., EC and Brazilian patent and antitrust laws
… and needless trade-offs above mentioned. When a patentee asks for relief against an infringer, it does not matter whether patents provide rewards or prospects to patentees, or even whether their role is to avoid rent dissipation. If courts were required to verify whether the patentees had …
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Patent abandonment and subsequent cumulative inventions
This dissertation explores how the focal firm’s patent abandonment strategy can facilitate cumulative inventions by external inventors, as well as subsequent cumulative inventions by the focal firm to enable value creation and value capture. To keep a patent in force in the United States, a firm …
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Mandatory corporate patent disclosures and innovation
I investigate the effect of corporate patent disclosures on innovation. Using the American Inventor's Protection Act (AIPA) as a plausibly exogenous shock to corporate patent disclosures, I find evidence of the AIPA shaping innovation through two simultaneous channels. First, the AIPA encourages a …
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Patent law and non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
This thesis examines how patent law affects the right to health by influencing access to medicines for non-communicable diseases (NCDs). While acknowledging the critical role of patents in incentivizing pharmaceutical innovation, it underscores significant challenges posed by the current patent …
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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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The effects of patent harmonization on inventors
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1994.
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Indonesia’s Patent Law at a Crossroads: Can Indonesia Implement a Constitutional Patent Law in the TRIPS and TRIPS-plus Era?
Patent law is historically known as a key driver for development. The limited exclusive rights provided to inventors incentivise research and development as well as investments in innovative products and services. Patents are also known for their social functions. Disclosure of the inventions prior …
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Open Innovation in the light of Patent Law.
… who make a creative contribution in terms of patent law to the resulting innovation. Chapter 3: State of the Scientific Research Evaluation of the state of scientific research has shown that there are very few studies on the interaction between patent law and OI on the low-level of concrete …
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Impact of Litigation Financing Disclosures on Patent Litigation
… on litigation outcomes, particularly in patent litigation. Despite the increasing importance of litigation funding, transparency regarding funders’ involvement remains limited. Using a differences-in-differences model, the study examines the effects of recent disclosure mandates …
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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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Effect of patent law changes on the innovation strategy of Chinese and Indian Life Science companies as reflected in US patent filings
In this paper we evaluate how harmonization of patent laws in China and India to developed world standards has affected innovative research and development activity in the life sciences industry of those countries. The patents listed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office were used as a …
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Automatic Patent Classification According to the TRIZ Inventive Principles
… TRIZ Principles). To facilitate the searching of patents for TRIZ users, patents are required to be classified according to the methodologies (or Principles) used in the patents and the Contradictions involved in the patents. Manual TRIZ-based patent classification is a time-consuming process. …
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Analysis of patent data for flame-retardant plastics additives
… representing and analyzing the claims section of patents is presented and applied to a set of patents that refer to flame retardants. The claims section of a patent is presented as a graph, with individual claims as points and references between claims as lines connecting those points.
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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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The genetics of atrial septal defect and patent foramen ovale
… laboratory mice showed an association between patent foramen ovale (PFO) and measures of atrial septal morphology, particularly septum primum length (“flap valve length” or FVL). In humans, PFO is associated with cryptogenic stroke and migraine, and is regarded as being in a pathological …
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