Inventing a Nonexclusive Patent System

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PaTrans- A Patent Translation System

This paper describes Pa~lh'ans a fully automat ic production MT system designed for producing raw translations of patent texts fl'om English into Danish. First we describe the backbone of tile system: the E U R O T R A research project, and prototype. Then we give an overview of the trauslat, ion process and the basic flmetionality of Pa'I~'ans, and finally we describe some recent extensions fo...

Patent Analysis with Innovative Patent Map System

Among the research on patents, the applications of Patent Map to Patent Analysis have been gradually emphasized. For three years, the researchers have applied Patent Map Theory Model to establishing Patent Map System (PMS) assisting decision-makers in Patent Analysis. Based on the system requirements, relevant function components are planned, and UML technology is utilized for the design and es...

Inventing-around Edison’s incandescent lamp patent: evidence of patents’ role in stimulating downstream development

Ron D. Katznelson and John Howells ABSTRACT We provide an anatomy of the influence of Edison’s incandescent lamp patent U.S. 223,898 on downstream development and show how subsequent inventor activity adjusts to the improved certainty provided by court decisions as to the boundaries of a patent’s claims. First, we show that court decisions upholding Edison’s patent generated a surge of patent f...

Inventing science

When I was young, we seemed to have plenty of free time available for activities that the more serious generation of today would regard as puerile, if not infantile. Thus I spent endless hours writing scripts for imaginary series such as the ‘Lives of Great Composers’ or ‘Great Moments in Science’. I remember a scene written for one of the former which depicted Berlioz in a morgue, fondling the...