Universities, regions, and governments all over the world have become interested in university technology transfer … because transferring the knowledge from basic research to industry is seen to be a key to developing an innovation economy …

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 system and a strong protective regime. This paper intends to look at …

success of the invention. Prize-oriented institutions thus appear to be less systematic and not as market-oriented as patent …Such institutions as patent systems cannot be well understood without an assessment of technological creativity in …. Accordingly, this paper offers an empirical comparison of patents in relation to the award of prizes for technological innovation …

success of the invention. Prize-oriented institutions thus appear to be less systematic and not as market-oriented as patent …Such institutions as patent systems cannot be well understood without an assessment of technological creativity in …. Accordingly, this paper offers an empirical comparison of patents in relation to the award of prizes for technological innovation …

in patent grants is at least partly a result of the apparent decline in examination standards. There has been little … rigor of the examination process, amongst other things and patent grants depend on the number and quality of applications … addition countries whose patent applications are more likely to be successful in the U.S. are more likely to be successful in …

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 matter questions in both patent and copyright law. The article suggests that … patent and copyright law jurisprudence was constructed initially by the Court with explicit attention to the relationship …

'invention' for the 'vital functions' of the Patent Law. The mentioned proposal for use the RWP basis on my circa 25 years … 'Patentable Invention as the Legal Object in the Light of Systems Thinking Big (whole) Picture in Patent Laws' I have presented in …The present article is in principle the continuation of my one 'Legal Definition of the Term 'Invention' as the Primary …

the patent litigation caused significant reduction of incremental innovation. Through the detailed examination of the …In the widely publicized campaign to curb purported “patent troll” litigation abuses, there are many anecdotal stories … on non-practicing entities’ (“NPE”) alleged abusive patent assertions. In view of the paucity of accurate accounts of the …