The patent landscape, like a garden, can tell you much about its designers and users; their motivations, biases and … general interests. And while both patent landscapes and gardens may appear to the casual observer as refined and ordered, an …, thickets and trolls. As this article illustrates, patent landscapes are dynamic and have been forced to continually evolve in …

virus. Those cases may or may not seem to be solved by today, but there are more (new) patent files regarding patents on … nanotechnology to see if research tool patents cause similar problems there. The thesis, moreover, contains an interesting and …Biotechnology is the key technology of the 21st century. Nanotechnology is about to follow, but has not met the …

opposite effect when it comes to nanotechnology. Because universities now own too many “upstream” patent rights with the … unnecessary drag on nanotechnology development. This Article shows, however, that contrary to this common criticism, patents on … emerge, this Article shows that the latency in development is due not to patents but rather to the fact that nanotechnology …

more problematic. Nanotechnology patenting needs a thorough examination of such facts, which makes this area of scientific …

overprotective patent system threatens the potential benefits of a fully realized nanotechnology industry. The patent system is …In the ill-defined world of "nanotechnology," a simple sphericule or rod of carbon - the "buckyball" or "nanotube" has … been patented not once, but more than 250 times in slightly different forms. The dream of nanotechnology - engineering …

engineering articles (Thompson Citation Index) and patents (US Patent Office in the United States, European Patent Office in …The field of nanotechnology has seen enormous growth since 2000 and is expected to reach $1 trillion worldwide by 2015 …, analyze and report on the state of the art in nanotechnology research, based on the analysis of databases for science and …

-location of R&D activities on nanomaterial patenting. Based on European Patent Office data at the German district level (NUTS-3 … and private R&D on the production of nanomaterial patents. Moreover, we find a positive interaction between them which …