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Chapter 25. Patent Statistics as an Innovation Indicator
Nagaoka, Sadao; Motohashi, Kazuyuki; Goto, Akira - 2010
. Citation information has been found to provide very useful information on the value of patents, although backward citation as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025146
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When authors become inventors : an empirical analysis on patent-paper pairs in medical research
Martinelli, Arianna; Romito, Elena - 2019
citing agent belongs to a public institution. In addition, the the more invention is applied, the weaker is the negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111545
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Who patents, how much is real invention and how relevant? : a snapshot of firms and their inventions based on the 2016 SIPO China Patent Survey
Molnár, Margit; Xu, Hui - 2019
explained by quality and relevance issues. Although the number of patents has been soaring, few are genuine inventions …. Relatively low utilisation rates of patents point to a low degree of relevance. This paper uses a representative survey of … ownership. It also overviews government subsidies across firms. Transport equipment makers hold most patents per firm, followed …
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Commercializing Property Rights in Inventions : Lessons for Modern Patent Theory from Classic Patent Doctrine
Mossoff, Adam - 2015
as owners of real estate because patents were "property." Thus, by definition, patentees enjoyed the same rights as those … interest. Second, patents are now defined as securing only a right to exclude, and this has unhinged patent conveyance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014181169
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Patents for Intangible Inventions in Australia after Grant v. Commissioner of Patents – Part 2
McEniery, Ben - 2014
protecting an asset from the claims of creditors. The court held that in order to be patentable, an invention must disclose a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014191356
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Patents for Intangible Inventions in Australia after Grant v. Commissioner of Patents – Part 1
McEniery, Ben - 2014
An issue currently attracting attention in a number of jurisdictions is the patentability of ‘pure’ business methods, which are business methods that do not involve a physical aspect. This issue was dealt with recently in Australia by the Full Court of the Federal Court which considered the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014191357
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Patents, Secrets, and the First Inventor Defense
Denicolò, Vincenzo; Franzoni, Luigi A. - 2014
We analyze optimal patent design when innovators can rely on secrecy to protect their innovations. Secrecy provides a temporary monopoly, which terminates when the secret leaks out or the innovation is duplicated. We find conditions under which the optimal policy is to induce the first innovator...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014133377
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Peanut Butter Patents Versus the New Economy : Does the Increased Rate of Patenting Signal More Invention or Just Lower Standards?
Sanyal, Paroma; Jaffe, Adam B. - 2014
decades appears to be driven to a significant extent by an increase in the underlying invention rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014071214
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Beyond Invention : Patent as Knowledge Law
Madison, Michael J. - 2014
The decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in Bilski v. Kappos, concerning the legal standard for determining patentable subject matter under the American Patent Act, is used as a starting point for a brief review of historical, philosophical, and cultural influences on subject...
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Flowers of Invention : Patent Protection and Productivity Growth in US Agriculture
Moscona, Jacob - 2021
Patent protection was introduced for plant biotechnology in the United States in 1985, and it affected crops differentially depending on their reproductive structures. Exploiting this unique feature of plant physiology and a new dataset of crop-specific technology development, I find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212210