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Legal Definition of the Term Invention as the Primary Substance of Patent Law

Tiimann, Tiit - 2015

‘invention' as the primary substance for “vital functions” of the Patent Law. The definitions are important enough in traditional … legal definition of the term ‘invention' as the basic concept in these important documents, not to mention the legal … definition of the patentable invention as the legal object, which shall be derived directly from this basic concept.I give myself …

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Patentable Inventions and the Right of Patent Holders in Nigeria

Waziri, Kasim Musa - 2015

Development of any kind is always linked to one kind of innovation or the other. In fact, it is posted that the abolition of slave trade in Europe at the time was due to the impact of patent. For a country like Nigeria to develop in all fours, there is an urgent need to have a vibrant patent...

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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...

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Defense-Side Patent Litigation Financing : a Practical Solution for Inventors Harmed by the Patent System

Jaccard, Connor - 2021

Small businesses in the United States are a major source of innovation and economic growth and employ more scientists and engineers than either large businesses or universities. In spite of these facts, recent reform in the patent system has had a disproportionately negative impact on small...

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Why Don't Inventors Patent?

Moser, Petra - 2015

This paper argues that the ability to keep innovations secret may be a key determinant of patenting. To test this hypothesis, the paper examines a newly-collected data set of more than 7,000 American and British innovations at four world's fairs between 1851 and 1915. Exhibition data show that...

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State-Dependent Intellectual Property Rights Policy

Acemoglu, Daron - 2016

What form of intellectual property rights (IPR) policy contributes to economic growth? Should technological followers be able to license the products of technological leaders? Should a company with a large technological lead receive the same IPR protection as a company with a more limited lead?...

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Does productive mean active? : the behavior of occasional and serial academic inventors in patenting processes

Lewensohn, Danielle; Sjögren, Ebba; Sundberg, Carl Johan - In: Triple Helix : a journal of … 8 (2021) 1, pp. 163-215

Previous literature has attributed differences in individuals' inventive productivity to a range of environmental, organizational and individual traits. However, the behavior of individuals with different inventive productivity has not been empirically explored in detail. Based on interviews...

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Contested inventors : British patent disputes and the culture of invention in the late nineteenth century

Arapostathis, Stathis - In: Knowledge management and intellectual property : …, (pp. 145-161). 2013

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Something in the air : the post office and early wireless, 1882-1899

Bruton, Elizabeth - In: Knowledge management and intellectual property : …, (pp. 127-144). 2013

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Collective invention and patent law individualism, 1877-2012 - or, the curious persistence of the inventor's moral right

Dutfield, Graham - In: Knowledge management and intellectual property : …, (pp. 109-126). 2013

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