This dataset introduces patent-based indicators such as indicators of technology development, indicators of …

This dataset comprises statistics on patents by main technology and International Patent Classification (IPC). EPO …, USPTO, PCT and Triadic Patent Families are in fact presented according to classes of the International Patent Classification …

The Patent Cooperation Treaty provides the possibility to seek patent rights in a large number of countries by filing a … single international application with a single patent office. Since the mid-1980s, the patent cooperation treaty (PCT …) procedure has become a popular method for filing patent applications, as is reflected in the substantial increase in PCT …

balance research use and patent holder’s rights. …

change in health-related areas. Reported counts are based on “Triadic Patent Families”, that is sets of patents covering a … single invention, filed altogether in Europe, Japan and the US. There were nearly 40 000 health-related patent families filed … in the 1988-1995 period, which is 16% of the total number of patent families, with a majority (58%) of Medical …

lags; use of International Patent Classification (IPC) codes for grouping patents according to technology; treatment of … references to Non-Patent Literature (NPL); and the notion that many publications, from different patenting authorities, covering …

This analysis aims at capturing current inventive activities in nanotechnologies based on the analysis of patent … applications to the European Patent Office (EPO). …

Few topics in the life sciences today provoke as much debate as the availability of patent protection on "genetic … that despite sometimes controversial licensing practices the patent system has broadly achieved what is intended. The …

Few systematic economic evaluations have been carried out on patent system to better inform policy choices. This report …

vehicle emissions, and development of renewable energy technologies. On the basis of patent data, the nature, extent, and …