Kong, Nancy; Dulleck, Uwe; Jaffe, Adam B.; Sun, Shupeng; … - 2020
university patents are more readable. Combining the multiple measures using principal component analysis, we find that the gap in … patents become less readable is use of multiple examples to mask the "best mode" of inventions. By confirming that … computational linguistic measures are useful indicators of readability of patents, we suggest that the disclosure function of …