measure the benefits of reallocating the ownership of a patent from the original inventor to a new owner for whom the patent …

In this work we analyse patterns of technological development using patent applications at the United States Patent and … Trademark Office (USPTO) over the 1973-2012 period. Our study focuses on the combinations of technological fields within patent …

sector. Academic inventions are identified via patent applications of German academic scientists. We find that academic …

) “patent-paper pairs” methodology. We use this methodology to identify the scientific publications associated with University … patented academic discoveries, citations to licensed patent-linked publications are higher in the three years after the license …

knowledge acquired from outside each patent’s technological domain. Our results do not seem to support the claim above …

Novelty is a basic requirement of patent law. An inventor cannot obtain a patent if the invention exists in the “prior …-filed patent document qualifies as prior art as of its filing date — even though the document does not become accessible to the … invention to the public; administrative delay of public accessibility due to Patent Office procedures should not count against …