This paper proposes a novel approach to measure disclosure in patent applications using algorithms from computational ….S. applications in three patent categories related to nanotechnology, batteries, and electricity from 2000 to 2019. Relying on the … for different source documents that patent attorneys can draw on, we confirm the relevance and usefulness of the …

The implementation of the Bayh-Dole Patent and Trademark Amendments Act of 1980 aided the ease with which universities … could patent innovations supported by federal funding.However, environmental and societal factors are often overlooked when … incentives, shape university and governmental policies promoting university patent creation.The overall research process is …

Traditional patent law theories teach that a patent's rights of exclusion are a patent's key benefit to the patentee … and are necessary to make the patent system work. Yet patentees are increasingly giving away such rights, in whole or in … part, as part of a growing phenomenon: patent pledges. In these scenarios, patentees voluntarily commit to limit …

The Constitution gives Congress the power to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." The patent system … v. MercExchange, this Note advocates a patent system that will allow access to stagnant patents sooner. The proposed … system starts with an initial exclusive patent period that is much shorter, and then includes renewable periods of …

of validity and the standard of proof to overcome it matters in patent litigation, at least in close cases. The final … section discusses several significant implications for participants in patent litigation and the patent system that flow from …

output. Research units that source research ideas from small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) patent more, but not more …