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Years of Patent Office Practice

This paper examines the administrative practices of the patent offices in sixty countries over a 150-year period, a little-explored arena where government bodies and private firms interact. Larger and wealthier countries where international trade is more important give patent applicants more options. In these nations, patent office administrators’ flexibility is often restricted and the respons...

The Duration of Patent Examination at the European Patent Office

We analyze the duration of the patent examination process at the European Patent Office (EPO). Our data contain information related to the patent’s economic and technical relevance, EPO capacity and workload as well as novel citation measures which are derived from the EPO’s search reports. In our multivariate analysis we estimate competing risk specifications in order to characterize differenc...

Office of Contract Administration Project Administration Data Sheet

Replication of data has been used for enhancing its availability in the presence offailures in distributed systems. Data can be replicated with greater ease thangeneralized objects. We review some of the techniques used to replicate objects forresilience in distributed operating systems. Wediscuss the problems associated with the replication of objects and presentascheme...

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The evolution of the crack growthspeed in a thin, buckled strip delamina-tion is studied and two approximate solu-tions are presented. The quasi-dynamicanalysis assumes that the deflection ofthe delaminated layer is represented bythe static postbuckling solution for thecurrent delamination length. A refinedanalysis introduces an indeterminateamplitude functio...

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