PatentChallenges.The information in this 2003 report is based on the samesurvey of experts and businesses that was conducted for the … previousreport.Thirty-nine U.S. patent attorneys were asked to identify ways thatsmall businesses could improve their foreign patent … invention prior to filing a U.S.patent application. Second, businesses should observe foreign filingdeadlines.Other steps …

patent law. The results are dramatic along several fronts: (1) the hindsight bias distorts patent decisions far more than … the hindsight problem; and (5) the hindsight problem pervades patent law to an extent not previously recognized - it … counter to the dominant patent analysis of the last decade and have significant implications for patent and innovation policy …

Expertise research shows quite ambiguous results on the abilities of experts in judgment and decision making (JDM …; allowing, for example, to predict under which conditions intermediates might outperform experts. Methodological requirements … for testing the proposed unifying theory under complex real-world conditions are discussed. -- Judgment and Decision …