patent applications filed by 64 Italian universities between1965 and 2002 are used to address the central research question …. According tothe data, the number of Italian university patent applications rosesubstantially between 1996 and 2006. Another key … university createsits own patent regulation, there is a 9 percent increase in the likelihood thatuniversities without an internal …

Patent information - as a form of technology disclosure - serves an important function in business strategy as well as … in industrial policy making. This study first discusses the role of patent information for technology disclosure before … demonstrates both the substantial increase of Asian patents in force from the 1980s to 2006 and the increase of Asian patent grants …

for biotechnological patent applications should not be sacrificed as tradeoff for a heightened obviousness standard …

For much of the past decade, scholars and others have criticized the U.S. patent system for a variety of legal … five years. Unfortunately, pending bills for so-called patent “reform” would make little or no fundamental substantive … the form of the “guts” of a new patent statute. Its statutory proposal tracks the current statute's organization and has …

The analysis of patent and citation data has become a popular source of evidence on localized knowledge spillovers and … innovation. Nevertheless, one aspect has been overlooked: the patent distribution across inventors is extremely skewed, as many …

commercialization have proved controversial. As detailed in this article, the United States Patent and Trademark Office is currently …

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in 2005 and 2006 had declared at least some of the patents to be invalid …