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Inventive methods and processes have long received hostile treatment by the patent system. Courts have long been … skeptical of these claims because of the potential for overbreadth of the patent, particularly if the method is delineated in …-tier forms of protection. While important, patents on the chemical compound itself offers greater downstream protection over all …
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postdoctoral scholars contribute equally to patent activity or whether there is a differential effect depending upon visa status …. We find patent counts relate positively and significantly to the number of faculty, number of PhD students and number of …
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between 1851 and 1915 to explore the relationship between patents and innovations. The data indicate that the majority of … patenting decisions are unresponsive to differences in patent laws. Cross-section evidence suggests that high-quality and urban … likely to use patents in industries where innovations are easy to reverse-engineer and secrecy is ineffective relative to …
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In this paper we look at patents as alternative to trade secrets. We disentangle the disclosure motive for patent … disclosure (a leakage), patents and secrets are perfect substitutes. Yet, a distinctive features of trade secret protection is … that it allows for independent creation. The duplicative efforts to reproduce a concealed innovation make patents and …
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The Federal Trade Commission's 2003 innovation report revealed an interesting fact: the pharmaceutical industry is … largely satisfied with today's patent system while the electronics, software and Internet industries are not. This article … inventive process for pharmaceuticals. Our patent system, however, has no analogous requirement for the other fields. In them …
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This Note applies the concept of "paradigm shifts" from the history and philosophy of science to describe how patents … scientific theory. Patents on research tools can prevent widespread access to these technologies and thus inhibit downstream … patent term in order to best balance the normal scientific processes and alternate hypothesis generation that jointly enable …
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in where environmental law has failed to efficiently provide greater incentives for environmental innovation. A patent … not face efficient incentives for environmental innovation - a market failure that patent rewards can ameliorate. Along …Despite numerous and diverse efforts, environmental law generally fails to promote technological innovation with …
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subsidizing the costs of patent applications has no impact on the outcome …
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This paper develops a sequential application-grant framework to analyze competing explanations for the two U.S. patent … argues that the 1990s intellectual property regime shift lowered examination standards and caused the 1990s patent surge …. Results from the empirical models reject the ¿friendly court¿ hypothesis as the primary source of the eighties patent surge …
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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 …
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